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Young Offenders

Jon Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people under the age of 21 years were charged with offences after having served a sentence restricted by section 91 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 in each year since 2000. [278923]

Claire Ward: The requested information is not available. The data sets compiled by the Ministry of Justice to analyse reoffending by juveniles do not allow for the identification of offenders sentenced to terms of detention under section 91 of the Powers of Criminal Court (Sentencing) Act 2000. Reoffending data for these offenders cannot therefore be produced.

Young Offenders: Restraint Techniques

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many acts of (a) restrictive physical intervention
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and (b) removal from association recorded in respect of those of each (i) sex, (ii) age group and (iii) ethnic group (A) with and (B) without a disability held in each institution in the juvenile secure estate were carried out (1) for purposes of ensuring good order and discipline, (2) to prevent escape from custody, (3) to prevent a child or young person from injuring him or herself or others, (4) to prevent a child or young person from damaging property and (5) to prevent a child or young person from inciting others to break orders, escape, injure themselves or damage property in each month between January 2007 and the latest month for which figures are available. [278457]

Maria Eagle: 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 data provided in the following tables, for the period April 2008 to March 2009, have been supplied by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and relate to use of restraint in secure training centres. Central collection of information about the reasons for each restraint began in April 2008. Details of the age, sex and ethnic group of the young person restrained were also collected from that point, but it is not possible to provide a further breakdown, by those categories, of the reasons for restraint, as the Youth Justice Board does not receive the data in that format. Statistics relating to young offender institutions and secure children’s homes are not collected in the format requested and obtaining them would require a search through individual records, which could not be carried out without disproportionate cost. The YJB does not collect data on whether or not a young person restrained has a disability, or the requested information about removal from association, and these could not be provided without disproportionate cost.

Use of restraint for the purpose of ensuring good order and discipline
	Rainsbrook	Oakhill	Medway	Hassockfield	STC total
April 2008	2	0	2	0	4
May 2008	0	0	0	0	0
June 2008	0	3	0	0	3
July 2008	0	0	1	8	9
August 2008	0	0	0	0	0
September 2008	0	0	0	0	0
October 2008	0	0	0	0	0
November 2008	0	0	0	0	0
December 2008	0	0	0	0	0
January 2009	0	0	0	0	0
February 2009	0	0	0	0	0
March 2009	0	0	0	0	0
Note: In July 2008, the Court of Appeal ruled that restraint could not be used in secure training centres for the purpose of ensuring good order and discipline (Re C v Secretary of State for Justice (2008) EWCA Civ 882)

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Use of restraint for the purpose of preventing escape from custody
	Rainsbrook	Oakhill	Medway	Hassockfield	STC total
April 2008	0	0	0	0	0
May2008	0	0	0	0	0
June 2008	0	1	0	0	1
July 2008	0	1	0	0	1
August 2008	0	0	0	0	0
September 2008	0	0	0	0	0
October 2008	0	0	0	0	0
November 2008	0	0	0	0	0
December 2008	0	0	0	0	0
January 2009	0	0	0	0	0
February 2009	0	0	0	0	0
March 2009	0	0	0	0	0

Use of restraint for the purpose of preventing injury
	Rainsbrook	Oakhill	Medway	Hassockfield	STC total
April 2008	24	58	24	31	137
May 2008	23	20	21	31	95
June 2008	29	25	33	32	119
July 2008	21	68	39	42	170
August 2008	38	44	25	43	150
September 2008	44	27	30	24	125
October 2008	37	36	34	36	143
November 2008	29	23	20	31	103
December 2008	35	27	24	42	128
January 2009	52	45	12	29	138
February 2009	14	26	40	47	127
March 2009	19	26	61	53	159

Use of restraint for the purpose of preventing damage to property
	Rainsbrook	Oakhill	Medway	Hassockfield	STC total
April 2008	1	1	1	4	7
May 2008	1	2	4	7	14
June 2008	1	2	6	4	13
July 2008	0	0	3	4	7
August 2008	0	4	4	7	15
September 2008	0	7	3	16	26
October 2008	1	2	6	6	15
November 2008	0	0	1	3	4
December 2008	2	4	2	6	14
January 2009	0	0	1	4	5
February 2009	0	0	2	15	17
March 2009	1	2	8	18	29

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