Children & Young People Now reports that justice minister Crispin Blunt has said that the role youth offending teams will play in the future is still up for debate.
Despite speculation that youth offending teams could take on a mainly commissioning role and that more frontline roles would be handed over to the voluntary sector and private providers, Blunt said no decisions had been made.
He said that there were “further opportunities for stakeholders to shape this autumn’s green paper” into justice reforms. He added: “I’m not in a position to say what the systemic answer will be regarding youth offending teams, that’s why we are in the process now of examining all the options.”
