Crime prevention programmes go hand in hand with keeping young people out of prison. So it was an interesting quirk of fate that the Youth Justice Board announced the secure estate was full in the same week that the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers (AYM) wrote to the government to voice concerns about crime prevention funding running out after March 2008 (CYP Now, 12-18 September).
Responsibility for the YJB is shared between the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), but there have been whispers that the two departments are fighting for control, leading to a failure to decide on future funding.
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