Official Statistics

Assessing the needs of sentenced children in the Youth Justice System

2018 to 2019 AssetPlus experimental statistics.

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Assessing the needs of sentenced children in the Youth Justice System: supplementary tables

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AssetPlus is a wide-ranging assessment and planning framework for use with children by Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) and secure establishments across England and Wales. The needs of children supported by YOTs are regularly assessed by practitioners using AssetPlus to support the planning of suitable interventions both in the community and in custody.

This publication focuses on a small subset of AssetPlus data which includes 19 assessed concern types, eight care status types as well as the four ratings for both Safety and Wellbeing and Risk of Serious Harm. These are based on assessments of children who received a Referral Order, Reparation Order, Youth Rehabilitation Order or custodial sentence between 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019.The report is published, along with supplementary tables including in an open and accessible format.

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Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons (reflecting the cross-departmental responsibility for children):

MOJ

Secretary of State, Minister of State for Prisons and Probation, Permanent Secretary, Director of Data and Analytical Services Directorate, Director of Youth Justice and Offender Policy, Deputy Director, Youth Justice Policy, Head of Quality, Performance, Information, Governance/Briefing, Head of Youth Justice Analysis, Chief Statistician, and the relevant special advisers, private secretaries, statisticians and press officers.

HMPPS

Director General of HMPPS. Youth Custody Service Head of Quality, Performance, Information, Governance/Briefing and Information Lead.

YJB

Chair, Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Evidence and Technology, Director of Innovation and Engagement – England, Director of Innovation and Engagement – Wales and the relevant statisticians and communication officers

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Published 28 May 2020

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