To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much each local authority (a) has spent on youth inclusion programmes in each year since their inception and (b) plans to spend on such programmes in each of the next five years; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the programmes. (294093)

A local authority breakdown of this funding can be provided only at disproportionate cost. The total expenditure on YIP by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) between 2000 and 2006 is as follows. These figures include grants made to the voluntary sector.

The overall expenditure, including YJB funding, on YIPs, between 2000 and 2006 is as follows. These figures demonstrate how the YJB grant draws in partnership funding from other sources, such as the local authority and other local and national funding streams including through the third sector.

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