Under the scheme, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) gave a consortium of youth offending teams from Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, and Ealing upfront cash to cut custody use over two years.
The West London consortia, one of four areas to start the project, had a target reduction of 11.8 per cent over the two-year project, which ran from October 2011 to September this year.
But figures released by Westminster Council show that the consortia actually reduced the use of custody by 38 per cent.
The authority has said that the reduction is a result of the work of the pilot.
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