The Repeat Offending Arts Programme will now include young people who are on its Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme, enabling repeat young offenders in Essex to take part in activities as part of their community sentence.
Jethro Bogdanov, team leader for the Repeat Offending Arts Programme, said: "Judges are increasingly accepting that the arts programme is a good way of replacing custodial sentences with community sentences. We have looked at statistics before, during and after the programme and have had a 70 per cent reduction in re-offending rates."
The council is recruiting two extra co-ordinators to help run the programme, which uses theatre techniques to get offenders to question their own behaviour.
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