These include £34.2m for intensive supervision and surveillance programmes, £34.1m for prevention programmes, £14m in substance misuse funding, £9.4m for community education and practitioner training, and around £5m on other programmes.
Wright told CYP Now that youth offending teams receive portions of this funding in addition to their core grants, but he fears it will not continue.
"People will be concerned that the money will disappear or, if it is recycled to local authorities in another way, that it will not be ringfenced and may not be used for its previous purpose," he said.
"We need to know what is going to happen to that money."
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