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Youth Justice statistics: 2019 to 2020

Youth justice annual statistics for 2019 to 2020 for England and Wales.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Youth Justice Statistics: 2019 to 2020 additional annexes

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Youth Justice Statistics: 2019 to 2020 infographic

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Youth Justice Statistics: 2019-20 supplementary tables

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Local level pivot tables

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Local level open data

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Local level maps

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Assessing the needs of sentenced children in the Youth Justice System: Supplementary Tables

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Assessing the needs of sentenced children in the Youth Justice System: Technical Note

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Erratum notice

Details

These statistics concentrate on the flow of children (aged 10-17) through the Youth Justice System in England and Wales. The data described comes from various sources including the Home Office (HO), Youth Custody Service (YCS), Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) and youth secure estate providers. The report is produced by the Information and Analysis Team in the Youth Justice Board (YJB) under the direction of the Chief Statistician in MOJ.

Details of the number of children arrested are provided along with proven offences, criminal history, characteristics of children, details of the number of children sentenced, those on remand, those in custody, reoffending and behaviour management.

The report is published, along with supplementary tables for each chapter, additional annexes, local level data, including in an open and accessible format, an infographic and local level maps.

Pre-release access

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

MOJ

Secretary of State, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Victims, Youth and Family Justice, Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service, Permanent Secretary, Chief Statistician, Director of Data and Analysis, Director General of Offender and Youth Justice Policy, Deputy Director of Youth Justice Policy, Head of Youth Custody Policy, Head of Courts and Sentencing, Head of Youth Justice Analysis and the relevant special advisers, private secretaries, statisticians and press officers.

HMPPS

CEO of HMPPS, Executive Director of the Youth Custody Service, Head of Briefing, Governance and Communications at the Youth Custody Service, Head of Quality, Performance and Information at the Youth Custody Service, the Head of Information Team at the Youth Custody Service and relevant statisticians.

Home Office

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability and relevant private secretary.

YJB

Chair, Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Evidence and Technology, Programme Manager for Over-Represented Children and the relevant statisticians and communication officers.

Updates to this page

Published 28 January 2021
Last updated 7 May 2021 + show all updates
  1. Erratum notice published and local level maps updated.

  2. First published.

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