The Youth Justice Board (YJB), which helps fund YOTs, has been told to slash its budget by the Ministry of Justice, prompting it to propose withholding £12m, equivalent to 14 per cent, of the £91m it allocated for YOTs for the current financial year.
The Association of Youth Offending Team Managers (AYM) has said in order to make the necessary in-year savings, YOTs will face no alternative but to scale back on non-statutory work such as crime prevention.
Gareth Jones, chair of AYM, said: “The success of the youth justice system in the last 15 years has been due in large part to the investment in preventing youth crime at an early stage, and in ensuring young people face up to the consequences of their offending for their victims through restorative justice.
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