Written evidence to be reported to the House
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
3:15 pm
Les Lawrence: With the devolvement of the Youth Justice Board funding to which I referred—the first 10 per cent.—and if we can move from the current process of putting young people into custodial situations and to the rehabilitation framework, with the community sentencing options, we have quite a significant amount of resource that we can refocus. It will not happen overnight—I can see it taking anything between three and five years to evolve—so I am trying to paint you a picture that is not going happen as soon as the legislation is passed.