Project Daedalus, which provides intensive support to specially selected inmates in the 30-bed Heron Unit of Feltham YOI, will not continue after funding for the two-year pilot runs out in May.
The news, confirmed in parliament this week by youth justice minister Crispin Blunt, follows controversy over claims made by mayor Boris Johnson into the project’s success.
The Youth Justice Board has said it will continue to fund four custody officers at the Heron Unit until September, when a decision on future funding will be taken.
The fresh funding announced by Johnson will be used to target 14- to 17-year-olds who have either been remanded or sentenced to custody, supporting them upon release and helping them to access education training or employment.
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