In a parliamentary written answer, Justice Secretary Jack Straw revealed that £36m was handed to the YJB for these programmes during 2008/9, compared with £38m the previous year.
This is the first cut in funding for preventative programmes since 1999.
Programmes covered by the figures include youth inclusion and support panels, youth inclusion programmes, safer schools partnerships and parenting support initiatives.
The figures do not include funding for programmes aimed at reducing reoffending, such as the intensive supervision and surveillance programme or intensive fostering placements.
Shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieve, who tabled the question, said: "This is yet another area of cuts in the criminal justice budget, resulting from Gordon Brown's bankrupting of the public finances - and at a time when the Home Secretary is warning of a credit crunch crime wave."
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