Following a visit earlier this year, HM Inspectorate of Probation handed the London borough its lowest judgement of “poor” in four out of six categories.
Inspectors were particularly critical of programmes to reduce reoffending, which were found to be so poorly organised that less than half of them took place.
In many cases the suitability of young people to carry out programmes was not assessed.
The service’s weapons awareness course was among programmes criticised, with inspectors finding confusion between police and the YOS as to which should be running it.
“Some of the recording of individual interventions was so poor that it was impossible to say what work had been carried out with children and young people,” the inspection report states.
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