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YOTs failing to implement reoffending prevention effectively

Work by youth offending teams (YOTs) to prevent young people from reoffending needs to be planned, delivered and evaluated more effectively, a report has found.

A joint inspection by HMI Probation, the Care Quality Commission, Estyn, the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales and Ofsted, found that both nationally and locally not enough attention was given to interventions that tackle offending behaviour. And although YOTs sometimes achieved some success in practice, they were often not clear how they had achieved this and needed a greater understanding of information and research to achieve better results.

The report also found that YOTs need to access and make more use of information about what works in making interventions more effective and that better case planning was needed, as was training and development for practitioners.

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