Youth Custody: Travellers
(asked on 3rd November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of literacy levels among gypsy and traveller children in secure training centres and young offender institutions.
Information on literacy levels in the youth secure estate is not held centrally. The YJB and HMIP 'Children in Custody 2014-15’ report, published in December 2015, presents results of surveys completed in under-18 YOIs by young males aged 15 to 17 years that self-identified as Gypsy, Romany, or Traveller compared to young people did not report that they belonged to this ethnic group. The results for 2014/15 were as follows:
Under-18 YOIs (2014/15) | Gypsy, Romany or Traveller males aged 15-17 years (sample size = 42) | Other young males aged 15-17 years (sample size = 510) |
Do you understand spoken English? | 98% | 99% |
Do you understand written English? | 92% | 99% |