The model, unveiled by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation this week, was developed to back up its research on the effectiveness of street-based youth work in reaching socially excluded young people.
Details of the groundbreaking costing exercise, completed by Tom Wylie, The National Youth Agency chief executive and member of the steering group for the research, were published alongside the research report, Reaching Socially Excluded Young People.
The exercise worked out the cost of implementing a standard detached work project across given proportions of the nation's most disadvantaged areas.
"Reaching Socially Excluded Young People highlights the patchy nature of street-based youth work and hence we wanted to find a way of informing funders how much it would cost to remedy," explained Wylie.
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