It received 100,000 from the Children's Fund for three years, and a share of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council's 1m-plus Investing in Children fund. From April this year, a quarter of all Children's Fund money has had to be spent with YOTs.
Workers to be recruited include two youth offending and support panel officers and an operational manager.
A YOT officer is also being sought to implement a remand initiative at Hindley Young Offenders' Institution, which aims to reduce the number of young offenders in custody by moving them onto support packages such as intensive supervision and surveillance programmes.
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