Young Offender Institutions: Discipline

(asked on 18th May 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answers of 25 January 2016 to Question 22862 and of 26 June 2015 to Question 2890, for what reasons additional days were added as a result of adjudications to sentences served by children under the age of 18 in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 27th May 2016

The table below provides the reasons additional days were added as a result of adjudications to sentences served by children under the age of 18 in each year since 2010.

Although youth crime is down, reoffending rates are far too high and the care and supervision of young offenders in custody is not good enough.

That is why the Justice Secretary has asked Charlie Taylor to conduct a review of youth justice. He will report back later this year with recommendations on how to improve the treatment of young people in our care.

I also plan to appoint a Youth Custody Improvement Board who will work across the youth secure estate in each Secure Training Centre and Young Offender Institution that holds children, including those currently run by NOMS and will look particularly at the safety of young people and behaviour management techniques.

Number of awards of additional days, by reasons for juveniles, in all prison establishments, England and Wales,1 2010 - 2015

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Number of awards where additional days were given

98

78

108

146

282

208

Violence

53

50

66

83

164

145

Escapes or absconds

0

0

0

0

0

0

Disobedience or disrespect

15

11

15

19

45

25

Wilful damage

14

4

2

17

14

7

Unauthorised transactions/possessions

11

10

8

9

18

16

Other offences

5

3

17

18

41

15

1 - The figures relate to all proven adjudications and include suspended and prospective punishments

Data Sources and Quality

These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors

with data entry and processing.

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