Results for year one of the five Local Justice Reinvestment pilots using payment-by-results in youth justice settings show an overall drop of 13 per cent in offending-related work between July 2011 and June 2012.
However, individual results for the pilots varied widely, with Southwark, Lewisham and Greater Manchester delivering cuts of 20 per cent or more, while Lambeth and Croydon reported a rise of 13.4 and 6.7 per cent respectively compared to 2010 levels.
Under the pilots, agencies involved in delivering youth justice services receive "success payments" if demand on the youth justice system drops by 10 per cent, up to a maximum of 20 per cent.
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