Attempts to create a more welfare-based approach to dealing with young offenders could come to nothing due to a lack of resources, a leading mental health charity has warned.
Last month's green paper, Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders, outlined widely expected plans to introduce restorative justice and payment-by-results models to bring down levels of reoffending.
The measures include plans to tackle mental health problems among young offenders, provide drug recovery programmes where necessary and legislative changes to help young offenders get work.
These plans have been welcomed as a major step towards a more welfare-based system, but concerns have already been raised about how they will be implemented.
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