The near doubling of the 45m made available by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) for crime prevention through an extra 37m from local partner organisations (YPN, 31 May-6 June, p2) shows preventing crime is no longer seen as the sole preserve of youth offending teams.
And the discussions between youth offending teams (YOTs) and children's services on how to spend the money has led to the emergence of several important crime-prevention partners.
The first is schools. In the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, a youth inclusion programme (YIP) is being set up in a secondary school; one of only three school-based YIPs in England.
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