The Youth Justice Board (YJB) has announced that funding for YOTs will be reduced by an average of 23 per cent in London alone. In cash terms, this adds up to nearly £175,000 per borough.
Originally, boroughs had been warned to prepare for a 10 per cent cut to their budgets, but this has since more than doubled.
Steve Reed, London Councils’ executive member for children and young people, has written to Education Secretary Michael Gove urging him to reconsider the planned cuts.
Reed said: "Across the capital, YOTs perform some quite heroic work helping to support young people from re-offending. These cuts risk undermining this work. Combined with the effects of cuts across education policing, housing and welfare, there is a very real risk that we could see a rise in young people offending and then going on to re-offend.
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