The government also established the contemporary Youth Justice System and the Youth Justice Board a non-departmental public body, which was given the overall responsibility for the youth justice and creates interdisciplinary working including with police, social services working within a framework to end youth offending. The (CDA) placed a statutory responsibility on all those who work with the youth justice system. Whereby agencies including children services to creates action plan for younger offender and identified young people who at risk of offending, part of the proposal for preventing offending in children and young people (Goldson, 2000 cited in Byrne and Brooks 2015). However, while Youth Justice System continued to delivered successful in local communities through national policy and practice direction, and through central government grants, and inspection regimes (Barry 2004,) However, the results of New Labour youth justice policy has been criticised for failing young …show more content…
Garton, Grimwood and Strickland, (2013) highlighted that since the reform of the Youth Justice System, the Crime Disorder Act (1998) and the reform of Youth Justice Board (YJB) and youth offending teams (YOTs) in England and Wales. The number of children and young people that are criminalised and put into prison have risen. Barry, (2004) also suggested despite the large budget in place to tackle offending, the youth offending teams would not find the solution to tackle the multiple social needs of young people who were offending. Such support services for young people into long-term education or employment or housing or family