Date published: 2007/03/01
The BBC says:
A plan to reward teenagers with "good behaviour cards" to spend on sport and leisure activities has been abandoned.
Under the scheme, young people in England were to have had credits of up to £25 a month to spend as they chose.
The Youth Opportunity Cards were launched by Chancellor Gordon Brown last March, as part of a plan to keep teenagers off the streets.
But ministers say a pilot scheme hit technological problems and revealed the costs would outweigh the benefits.
They spent £2m piloting the scheme with 10 local authorities but found it would not be cost-effective.
There was a need to develop new technology for it, which meant it would have been twice as expensive as planned.
How typical of the British government. The government blows a few million pounds on a scheme having done no proper cost analysis. We should only be thankful that they pulled the plug now rather than waste even more money trying to prove that their great idea was, well, great.
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