House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 30 Mar 2009 (pt 0045)

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Table two details the instances of recorded self-harm by females, including young offenders (YOs) aged under-21. Female YOs are not held in stand-alone female YOIs. Rather they are held within the adult female prison population.

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Table 2: Self harm incidents by establishment (female)
Prison	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Askham Grange	1	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Brockhill*	623	475	261	219	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Bronzefield	⁽¹⁾—	205	827	1,165	1,744	1,517
Buckley Hall*	758	1,079	596	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Bullwood Hall*	282	1,008	1,418	227	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Cookham Wood*	72	162	197	126	182	⁽¹⁾—
Downview	130	70	258	233	21	8
Drake Hall	8	7	28	17	41	42
Durham*	282	231	54	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Eastwood Park	683	1,139	2,441	2,074	1,965	2,584
Edmunds Hill*	156	209	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
Foston Hall	24	120	616	608	1,160	919
Holloway	957	1,179	1,396	1,470	1,099	1,829
Low Newton	373	719	1,118	736	970	829
Morton Hall	60	19	29	67	50	77
New Hall	1,588	1,116	1,053	1,261	1,193	1,082
Peterborough	—	—	800	1,126	1,041	1,337
Send	54	75	97	177	158	233
Styal	368	1,050	1,388	1,574	1,235	2,103
Winchester*	18	8	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—	⁽¹⁾—
⁽¹⁾ Indicates that there have either been no self harm incidents in that period or that the data are not available or applicable for that period (for example, if the prison has been using a different reporting system or has re-roled). Those prisons affected by re-roling are listed in the following table. Notes: 1. Figures refer to total numbers of self harm incidents and not numbers of individual prisoners. 2. Self harm incidents are as reported on the NOMS Incident Reporting System. Figures exclude recent numbers for C-NOMIS sites Albany, Camp Hill and Parkhurst. 3. Self harm risk is unevenly distributed around the prison estate and changes over time. The following list contains the major changes such as prisons opening, closing and re-rolling etc. which affect self harm figures. These need to be taken into account when interpreting changes from one year to the next.

	Prison	Change
2008	Blakenhurst	Merged to form HMP Hewell
2008	Hewell Grange	Merged to form HMP Hewell
2008	Brockhill	Merged to form HMP Hewell
2008	Cookham Wood	Female to under 18 Male
2007	Kennet	First opened
2006	Brockhill	Female to Male
2006	Bulwood Hall	Female to Male
2005	Peterborough	First opened
2005	Durham	Female wing closed
2005	Onley	YOI to YOI+Cat C
2005	Swinfen Hall	YOI to YOI+Cat C
2005	Weare	Closed
2005	Buckley Hall	Female to Male
2005	Edmunds Hill	Female to Male
2004	Winchester	Female wing closed
2004	Bronzefield	First opened
2003	Edmunds Hill	First opened

Young Offenders: Reoffenders

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what percentage of (a) people and (b) women aged from 18 to 24 years old who received a criminal conviction in the last 12 months had previously been convicted of one or more criminal offences when under the age of 18. [266149]

Mr. Hanson: Data held by the Ministry of Justice show that, of the 128,000 offenders aged between 18 and 24 who were sentenced by courts in England and Wales in 2007 and whose sentence was recorded on the police national computer, 40 per cent. (51,000) had previously been convicted under the age of 18. The equivalent figure for female offenders is 29 per cent. (4,600 out of a total of 15,900 offenders).

These figures have been drawn from the police’s administrative IT system which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. The figures are provisional and subject to change as more information is recorded by the police.

Overall the number of adult reoffences has fallen 23 per cent. between 2000 and 2006, and in particular there has been a reduction of 13 per cent. between 2005 and 2006. The number of reoffences classified as serious fell by 11.1 per cent. from 2000 to 2006.

The number of young people entering the criminal justice system for the first time is falling. The number in England fell from 103,955 in 2006-07, to 93,601 in 2007-08, a drop of 10 per cent.

The rate of reoffences committed fell by 1.5 per cent. from 125.0 offences per 100 offenders in 2005 to 123.1 in 2006. The rate of reoffences classified as serious fell by 8.0 per cent. from 0.90 serious offences per 100 offenders in 2005 to 0.83 in 2006.

Young Offenders: Restraint Techniques

Mr. Garnier: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many incidents involving the use of restraint by staff occurred in each young offender institution and secure training centre in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years. [265830]

Mr. Hanson: Restraint is only ever to be used by staff as a last resort, when all other approaches have either not succeeded or would not be appropriate.

The independent Review of Restraint in Juvenile Secure Settings, which was published together with the Government's response on 15 December 2008, made important recommendations about improving practice and making sure restraint is used as sparingly as possible. The Government and the Youth Justice Board are working together to implement those recommendations.

The following table sets out the number of recorded restrictive physical interventions (RPIs) on young people under the age of 18 in secure training centres and young offender institutions from 1 April 2007 to 31 December 2008. The Youth Justice Board has been collecting data against common definitions from April 2007. Comparable data are not available for earlier periods.

It is not possible to provide information on the number of recorded RPIs for 18 to 21-year-olds in young offender institutions as this is not held centrally in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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	Operational capacity at 9 January 2009	April 2007 to March 2008	April 2008 to December 2008
Secure training centres
Hassockfield	64	519	377
Medway	76	869	289
Oakhill	80	1,012	260
Rainsbrook	87	373	288

Young offender institutions
Ashfield	400	431	446
Brinsford	112	161	82
Castington	168	187	172
Cookham Wood	110	17	16
Downview	16	29	37
Eastwood Park	16	28	19
Feltham	240	379	337
Foston Hall	16	54	30
Hindley	192	337	284
Huntercombe	360	404	369
Lancaster Farms	240	299	208
New Hall	26	60	84
Parc	64	65	97
Stoke Heath	202	145	118
Thorn Cross⁽¹⁾	n/a	0	n/a
Warren Hill	222	212	249
Werrington	160	297	295
Wetherby	402	377	268
⁽¹⁾ The YJB stopped placing under 18s at HM YOI Thorn Cross from 1 April 2008 Source: Data have been taken from YJB administrative computer systems

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