The Personal Support in Custody Project will now run until December 2006 to allow more evidence about its effectiveness to be gathered and evaluated.
A spokesman for the Welsh Assembly Government, which funds the scheme, said: Local and national steering groups will view the evidence and comprehensive assessment to consider further take-up of the initiative, and importantly will also be considering the views of those young people involved.
The pilot currently involves youth services from Bridgend County Borough Council, in south Wales, and Denbighshire County Council, in the north. Workers spend two or three days a week working with young offenders in Stoke Heath and Ashfield Young Offender Institutions.
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