statistics & evaluation
Met-Track Tax Payer Statistics
For details on how Met-Track evaluates it’s own success please click here. However you may find the following statistics fairly sensational reading….
Six offenders or potential offenders diverted away from crime all year: £8000 £454,040 If we wanted to deliver two or three times as much weekly coaching as we do now, the cost would rise by £2,500 per year for each additional weekly session - barely scratching the surface of the above-mentioned savings to public funds.
It has been estimated that troubled teenage criminals cost the public more than £500 million every year*. Persistent young offenders can typically commit 25 offences a year for a decade, even though they will probably spend at least half that time behind bars! Consequently, the average bill for each of around 6500 juveniles (including custody and the cost of their crimes) totals around £78,040 each** - a total of more than £507.2 million a year for all serial young offenders!
So, let's get back to Met-Track: to operate on a small to average-size borough, offering a 'showcase' event, and then weekly coaching for a year by an international athlete or coach, costs around £8000. The following table shows the potential savings to the public purse, should we succeed in turning round the life of an existing persistent offender, or preventing a young person from developing into one:
Let's be really pessimistic, and assume that six boroughs engaged for a year only succeed with 3 actual or potential young offenders each. That's 18 young people on 6 x £8000 schemes - a cost of £48000. Off-set that against 18 x £78,040, and the saving works out at a cool £1.5 million!
Yes - 3 young people diverted away from crime on six boroughs - a saving of nearly £1.5 million!
Met-Track works - now all we need is someone out there to help fund our expansion, and London's communities will immediately begin to reap the benefits!