Responding to Neurodivergence in the Youth Justic

15 The cost of delay falls on a generation of children whose pathways are being shaped now. The action proposed in this paper is offered as a constructive route forward, anchored in obligations the state has already accepted, and designed to be taken up incrementally by the sectors implicated. Progress against each of the ten actions is measurable, and shared accountability across education, health, social care and justice is the precondition for that progress. These recommendations are therefore essential, rather than a 'nice to have'. How we respond to these children says something about how we understand ourselves as a society. Children with neurodisability in the justice system are not only doubly vulnerable (Moore & Miller, 1999) as children and as a group with neurodisability, but trebly so, given their neurodisability, their childhood, and their place within the criminal justice system. A society is measured in part by how it treats those most at risk of harm, and that places an obligation on all of us, grounded in both justice and moral responsibility.