Intensive intervention projects (IIPs) target 1,000 of the most troublesome young people in England every year.
Young people involved in the projects have to agree to a contract and are allocated a key worker who helps them tackle the causes of their bad behaviour.
The allocation process, announced by children's minister Beverley Hughes, will identify 20 organisations - from the public, private and voluntary sectors - that will each receive £650,000 over the next three years to develop an IIP.
The Department for Children Schools and Families' Youth Taskforce wants to fund projects that: build on existing provision to provide additional capacity; meet prioirites expressed in children and young people's plans and have robust structures at strategic and operational level.
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