The Youth Justice Board wants 90 per cent of young people in custody to receive at least 30 hours of education a week. The youth service in England has just signed up to a target of 60 per cent of the target population (itself a target of 25 per cent of the youth population) undergoing personal and social development that results in an accredited outcome. Both of these are laudable aspirations, and something we should work towards (to a level of 100 per cent). But to hang judgments of professional effectiveness (and subsequent funding decisions) on them is absurd, especially so when skills, capacity and resources are so far away from any mark where they are likely to be achieved.
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