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From 2006, funding allocations for YIPs have been accounted for as part of the YJB's overall prevention grant to Youth Offending Teams (YOTs). This includes funding for other prevention programmes.

An independent national evaluation in 2003/06 of the YIP programme found that:

of the four targets for the programme, YIPs exceeded one, narrowly missed one, and fell short on two; however,

arrest rates for the engaged target group considered to be most at risk of crime in each YIP went down by 66.5 per cent.,

of those who had not offended previously but who were at high risk, 74 per cent. did not go on to be arrested after engaging with a YIP.

A report of the evaluation is available on the Youth Justice Board's website at:

http://www.yjb.gov.uk/Publications/Resources/Downloads/Evaluation%20of%20the%20Youth%20lnclusion%20Programme% 20-%20Phase%202%20(Summary).pdf

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