The Resettlement and Aftercare Provision (RAP) programme was launched in June 2005 to improve levels of support offered to children and young people leaving custody.
An evaluation study commissioned by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) found that 78 per cent of young people on RAP were reconvicted within a year of their first offence compared to 86 per cent of those not on RAP.
However, the report warned that the findings were "statistically insignificant" due to the small sample size for assessing reconviction rates (294 young people).
"The results of the reconviction study demonstrate that young people on RAP are slightly less likely to re-offend than a matched sample of young people not engaged with the programme," the report read.
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