Assessments
ONSET & ASSET Assessment
Tools
Prevention : ONSET
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ONSET YJB Assessment Tool
Similar to ASSET
Dynamic risk factors assessed
Positive Factors
Risk of Serious Harm (ROSH)
Sex and Relationship
Drug and Alcohol Screening as appropriate
Learning Style (VAK) used
Prevention
What are the risk factors used in
ONSET ?
Prevention : ONSET
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Living Arrangements
Family and Relationships
Education
Neighbourhood
Lifestyle
Emotional and Mental Health
Prevention : ONSET
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Physical Health
Perception of Self and Others
Thinking and Behaviour
Attitudes to Offending
Motivation to Change
Differences between ONSET and ASSET
• No Offence Analysis in ONSET
• Positive Factors are attached to each of
the individual factors not as a separate
page
• CAF used more often to inform
assessment
• No Drugs or M.Health screening tool used
• ‘Over to You’ NOT ‘What do you Think ?’
ONSET and ASSET
• Validation Process used to inform
assessments :
• School/Education Provider
• Police/Safer Neighbourhood Team
• Health (both physical and emotional)
• YOT
• Any other agency that the family may be
working with
Statutory
ASSET Assessment Tool
Statutory : ASSET
• Offence Analysis
• 12 dynamic risk factors (Education split into
Statutory Education or Training/Employment)
• Positive Factors
• Vulnerability
• Serious Harm
• SQUIFA and SIFA
• Drug and Alcohol Screening
• Learning Style (VAK)
• ‘What do you Think?’ (WDYT)
Does the evidence box…
• Evidence the responses to the
questions in each section and provide
necessary practical detail?
• Explain the connections with offending
/behaviour both direct and indirect?
• Substantiate the score for the section?
Scoring
• Was this issue linked to past offending/
behaviour
• Direct or indirect link
• Always relevant or only sometimes
• Effect on offending/behaviour
immediate or over a longer period
• Issue leads to offending/behaviour by
itself or only contributes