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<p>The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Youth Justice Board (YJB) receive regular representations
from local authorities on a wide range of issues relating to the youth justice system,
including in relation to grants.</p><p> </p><p>The YJB Good Practice Grant contributes
directly to YOS’ statutory work - including preparing pre-sentence reports and supervising
youth offenders during sentence as well as front-line work to reduce offending and
re-offending by young people. It also contributes to work to prevent children offending
and coming into the youth justice system in the first instance. In addition to the
YJB Good Practice Grant, the YJB also offer discrete additional grants for specific
projects or initiatives, for example funding for restorative justice. The YOS also
receives funding from their local authority, health, probation, the police, and, where
applicable, the Welsh Government.</p><p> </p><p>The YJB will be allocating a total
of £72.2m in grants for 19/20, meaning that overall allocation for the front line
will be greater than the previous year. This will be broken down into £70.7m for the
Good Practice Grant and £1.5m that will be allocated throughout the year for additional
projects supporting front line services.</p>
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