Jacob Tas may have to draw heavily on his "ruthless focus on outcomes" as chief executive of crime reduction charity Nacro. Tas, who took over from Paul McDowell in May this year, appears a good fit for Nacro given he joins at a time when there is an increasing focus across the youth justice sector on the quality of the interventions delivered to vulnerable young people and the outcomes they achieve.
For example, the Troubled Families programme will ultimately be judged on the number of families it "turns around", and specifically getting persistent truants back in school and preventing young people taking part in antisocial behaviour.
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