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"The Youth Justice Board should do more to ensure its programmes are effective in reducing re-offending, MPs have concluded.
A report published on Tuesday by the Commons public accounts committee also warned the proportion of young offenders given custodial sentences varies significantly across the country.
The committee said that of the seven per cent of young offenders sentenced to custody, eight out of ten re-offend despite planned expenditure of �283 million on providing custodial sentences."
