Youth Justice Leaders Summit 2025

Andrez Harriott’s keynote at the Youth Justice Leaders Conference 2025 explored disproportionality, adultification, and the importance of holding children in mind at all times.

A powerful conversation on how systems, leadership, and frontline practice must move beyond managing behaviour and begin understanding context, intergenerational trauma, adultification, and the lived experiences shaping children’s lives.

Better outcomes begin with how we see the child.

Andrez Harriott BSc, MA

CEO and Founder of The Liminality Group (TLG) of companies.

He is a trained Criminologist, Sociologist, Organisational Consultant and Clinical Supervisor, trained within the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, specialising in the use of Systemic and Psychodynamic approaches, helping organisations to engage beyond their accepted narrative and explore beneath their surfaces.

With over 20 years of experience having delivered The Liminality Group's framework for integrated care to over 2500 children and young adults who have been sentenced or remanded for various offences, Andrez Harriott brings a wealth of understanding and knowledge to consultancy, experiential learning, training and keynote speeches.

Andrez Harriott BSc, MA is also an author contributing to:

 ‘Diversity and Marginalisation in Forensic Mental Health Care’ (Routledge, 2022) [click for access]

 ‘Still Breathing’ (Harper Collins, 2020) [click for access]

Andrez Harriott BSc, MA is also an accomplished musician and founding member of the British RnB group DAMAGE, selling over 4.5 million albums.