The Joint Inspection of Youth Offending Teams End of Programme Report 2003-2008 reviewed the findings of five years of inspection reports.
It found that multi-agency youth offending teams have improved the way they address the health and education needs of the young people they work with, and had increased engagement through a range of interventions.
But YOTs failed to prioritise safeguarding issues and minimising the risk of harm to others, the report said. "Whilst we have seen greater recognition of issues of risk of harm to others in more recent inspections, there remains little evidence of the action that needs to be taken in response, and in a number of cases there has been a muddling of this with likelihood of re-offending," the report states.
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