Speaking at a conference run by crime-reduction charity Nacro last week, Rod Morgan, chair of the board, said: "I get the impression that many youth offending teams are now creaking under the weight of what is an extending, mainly unfunded, task list."
Pauline Batstone, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers, said her organisation's members raised similar concerns at a meeting in May. She said there is a lot of duplication because similar information needs to be sent to various organisations in different forms. She added that rationalising the system would cut paperwork.
"No-one has got a hope in hell of looking at all the information in a way that would allow them to make judgments based on it," she said.
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