The Youth Justice Board, the Home Office and the Department for Education and Skills will put together a list of options including youth inclusion support panels, youth inclusion programmes and parental support.
Ellie Roy, chief executive of the board, said there will be 3m available this year to help teams plan the preventive work, which will be backed with 17m in 2006/07, and 25m in 2007/08.
The funding has come from the Home Office's 2004 Spending Review, with an extra 25m from the most recent budget (YPN, 29 June-5 July, p2). Youth offending teams will have to spend it on new programmes, rather than existing projects.
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