Payment-by-results is not new. The Labour government employed the method for providers of certain health services and welfare-to-work programmes. What is striking is this government's appetite to extend it to a raft of other public services. For instance, it is cited as a way to make real the "rehabilitation revolution" spelled out last week by Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke, where organisations are paid according to their record in cutting reoffending rates of convicted offenders. While not enough has been said about the approach to young offenders in bringing about this revolution, it will surely apply just as much to youth justice as the adult justice system.
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