The Valuing Youth Diversion toolkit, created by the Centre for Justice Innovation, uses basic information about diversion schemes to estimate potential "cost avoidance estimates", primarily for police and the court system.
Despite the fact youth diversion work can save large amounts of public money, it is not a statutory requirement of YOTs.
There are currently concerns that YOTs are being limited in the amount of early intervention diversion work they can do because of large reductions in funding in recent years.
Just last week it emerged that the Youth Justice Board (YJB) is likely to make emergency in-year cuts of around £12m to YOT funding, the equivalent of a 14 per cent in funding from central government for the current financial year.
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