Government announcements are usually accompanied by unfathomably large numbers as ministers drive forward their agendas with multimillion pound programmes.
So expectation was high last week when the Home Office used its five-year crime plan to unveil an expansion of youth inclusion programmes (YIPs) to stop young people becoming criminals.
YIPs use a highly targeted youth work model to work with the 50 people in each area aged 13 to 16 who are considered to be most at risk of committing crime. The Home Office plans to raise the number of YIPs in operation by 50 per cent by March 2008. A similar increase in the number of Youth Inclusion and Support Panels, which work with children aged eight to 13, was also announced.
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