In the Home Office's strategic plan, Confident Communities in a Secure Britain, the Home Secretary said 36 more youth inclusion programmes (YIPs) are to be launched by 2008. This would cost an estimated 1.8m, which would be match-funded locally by other agencies.
"We are dramatically expanding the youth inclusion programme," said Blunkett.
"The people working with the young people deserve a medal."
The Youth Justice Board launched YIPs in 2000 to work in the most deprived areas of England and Wales. They aim to engage the 50 teenagers aged 13 to 16 in each area most at risk of committing crime.
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