Under the Scaled Approach, which came into effect at the end of November 2009, a variety of assessment tools are used to calculate which sentences are most appropriate for offenders under the Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO).
An evaluation of four pilot areas for the system that ran from December 2006 to June 2007, which has only now been published, found that the approach is backed by frontline workers.
"There is very clear evidence that the practitioners in the pilot YOTs considered that adopting the risk-based approach had resulted in better outcomes for young people and these outcomes were measured in terms of better targeting and tailoring of interventions and more appropriate levels of contact," the report said.
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