Youth Rehabilitation Orders

(asked on 14th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate he has made of the number of interventions mandated by Youth Rehabilitation Orders that are being delivered.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 19th October 2020

Youth Rehabilitation Orders (YROs) can be imposed in any case where the mandatory referral order conditions do not apply. It provides the court with a menu of 18 requirements to choose from (such as education, activity or curfew requirements).

Youth Offending Teams supervise young people serving a community sentence and figures on the delivery of requirements that have been given to children who received a YRO are not held centrally. Youth Justice Statistics are published annually, including the number of requirements that have been given to children who received a YRO. In the year ending March 2019 this was as follows:

Table: Types of requirements given to children receiving a Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO), year ending March 2019(1)

Requirement

Number of requirements

Share

Supervision

3,655

32%

Activity

2,138

19%

Electronic Monitoring

1,556

14%

Curfew

1,478

13%

Programme

930

8%

Unpaid Work

434

4%

Prohibited Activity

418

4%

Attendance Centre

330

3%

Exclusion

290

3%

Education

108

1%

Residence

74

1%

Local Authority Residence

54

0%

Drug Treatment

24

0%

Drug Testing

13

0%

Mental Health Treatment

12

0%

Intoxicating Substance Treatment

11

0%

Total

11,525

100%

(1) In the year ending March 2019 according to Youth Justice Application Framework (YJJAF) there were 5,075 YROs given to 3,883 children. These YROs had 11,525 requirements attached to them. For 1,240 of 5,075 YROs given no requirement type was recorded.

Source: Youth Justice statistics: 2018 to 2019 supplementary tables, Chapter 5 – Sentencing of Children, Table 5.7 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/youth-justice-statistics

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