Lucy Dawes, director of performance at the YJB, made the estimate as latest figures revealed that reductions in children being remanded to youth jails are running at twice the national average in areas piloting new approaches.
Figures released by the YJB show that eight pilot areas trialling a YJB toolkit, which contains a series of methods that YOTs can use to reduce remand levels, have seen a reduction of 18 per cent in the number of secure and custodial remands between July 2010 and June 2011, compared to the previous year.
Nationally, there was a nine per cent reduction during the same period.
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