During the pilot, which ran from August 2003 for two years, the Learning Alliance - Nacro, YMCA Training and Rathbone - worked with offenders in prison and on intensive supervision.
A Youth Justice Board study, The entry to employment programme, has shown that 48 per cent of young offenders who took part in the pilot went on to work or training. The Entry to Employment (e2e) scheme for non-offenders had a 47 per cent success rate over the same period.
The board has not been able to identify the exact contribution the project made, as other agencies were also involved.
Robert Newman, senior policy adviser for education, training and employment at the board, said: "There are indicators to give us cause for optimism."
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