As we report this week, youth offending teams across England and Wales remain utterly in the dark over whether they will have funding to continue prevention projects beyond next March (p6). This is when the £45m provided through the Youth Justice Board over three years back in 2005 is to cease. The Association of Youth Offending Team Managers says up to 1,200 prevention jobs are under threat. Workers are leaving programmes that revolve around parenting support and early intervention with children as young as eight because they don't know if their job will exist beyond the next six months. And so a first raft of experienced prevention practitioners who have built good models of practice is being lost. The emerging exodus is forcing many of these projects, which get stuck in with young people at risk of committing crime, to close down.
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