Speaking at Nacro's annual youth justice conference in Warwick last week, David Hanson said the government would not provide extra money for youth offending teams (YOTs) to fund work with young people given YROs due to a tight comprehensive spending review settlement.
The YRO will replace existing community orders for under-18s and will be made up of a "menu" of interventions. Courts will be able to choose from the menu to construct the sentence thought most likely to prevent the juvenile reoffending.
At the conference Hanson was asked by Mike Thomas, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers, whether YOTs would receive cash to make sure YROs were effective in reducing the number of young people entering custody - something Hanson had already outlined as a government priority.
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