
Currently, prevention services, which can include youth inclusion projects and targeted youth diversion activities, are provided by youth offending teams (YOTs), either directly, or through commissioned providers.
Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at The Howard League for Penal Reform, told a justice select committee hearing into the future of youth justice, that since the creation of the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and YOTs, the system has become “a bit of a mush”.
“There is a degree to which the machinery [of the youth justice system] is self-perpetuating the problem rather than doing anything about it," he said. "Prevention and early intervention should lie outside the youth justice system.
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