The way the Youth Justice Board (YJB) funds youth offending teams is to be reformed in a move that will have implications for the way local services are delivered.
The board provides grant funding to local authorities via a "good practice grant", which makes up about a third of total YOT funding. As stipulated at the moment, this is for "developing good practice and commissioning research in the area of youth justice".
But, following a "triennial review" of the YJB's functions in 2013, the government is now moving to extend the organisation's grant-making function to allow greater flexibility about how it is spent. Youth justice minister Andrew Selous, speaking during a debate on the proposals in the House of Commons earlier this month, said that by widening powers on grant-making, the government is seeking to increase the scope of services for which grant money can be used, "thereby better responding to the evolving local priorities of youth justice".
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