The Youth Justice Board got a bit of kicking from a committee didn't they?
The committee in question is the Public Accounts Committee - a panel of backbench MPs that is generally chaired by an opposition member and which looks at the effectiveness of aspects of public spending. Current chair Edward Leigh MP is a criminal barrister and former private secretary to Margaret Thatcher.
And what have they been doing? The committee has been examining the role of the Youth Justice Board in relation to custodial sentences and the higher tariff community sentences such as intensive supervision and surveillance programmes (ISSP), and its work in overseeing youth offending teams.
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