It has targeted funding on grassroots community organisations to support young people at risk of youth violence, set out plans to introduce tougher penalties for those convicted of the most serious offences, and pushed ahead with work to develop England’s first secure school – a model it hopes will become the future of the youth secure estate.
It has done this in response to rising concerns about violent crime perpetrated by and against young people and the role played by organised criminal gangs in grooming vulnerable children into county lines drug dealing. Meanwhile, the levels of young offenders in the secure estate remains historically low, yet those who serve time in custody often reoffend suggesting the system is struggling to rehabilitate them.
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