The YJB is due to submit suggestions to ministers next month on the ideaafter sounding out local government on the issue.
YJB chair Frances Done said the most realistic way of changing thesystem would be to single out areas that made up the metropolitancouncils of the 1970s. These large city areas currently account foraround 55 per cent of youth custody, she added.
"There wouldn't be any point doing it in areas like Devon or Cornwallwhere there are relatively low rates already," Done told CYP Now. Sheadded that the Local Government Association and the Association ofDirectors of Children's Services are "coming around" to the idea ofdevolving the cost of custody.
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