The Airborne Initiative's board of directors commissioned the report, The Airborne Initiative, Lessons Learnt 1994-2004, following the closure of the project last year.
Consultants Stuart Crawford Associates produced the report with input from former chief inspector of prisons, Clive Fairweather, who accused the Scottish Executive of sacrificing quality for quantity in its decision to plough Airborne's 600,000 budget into non-residential programmes for less serious offenders.
Fairweather said: "Although Airborne served a relatively small number of young people, they're the ones committing a disproportionate amount of crime. The executive needs to reconsider a centre like this for these types of young offenders."
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