Young Offenders
Mrs Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much each local authority in the north- east has contributed to the costs of its youth offending services from its Revenue Support Grant in each year since 2000-01. [86658]
Mr Blunt: The following table presents the amount of funding that each youth offending team (YOT) in the north-east reported having received from their local authority in total, whether from the Revenue Support Grant or other funding, including staffing costs, payments in kind and other delegated funds, from 2002-03 to 2009-10. No figures were recorded before 2002-03. Figures for 2010-11 are not yet available and are scheduled for publication in January 2012 as part of the Youth Justice statistics.
| YOT | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 |
| Notes : 1. No figure is available for Northumberland for 2009-10. 2. 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 and can be subject to change over time. 3. These figures were not collected prior to 2002-03. | ||||||||
Youth Custody
Robert Flello: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many children aged under 18 years in each age group were held in the secure estate on 30 November (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011. [87439]
Mr Blunt: The following table shows the number of children aged under 18 years by each age held in the secure estate for children and young people at the end of October for (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011.
As the prison population fluctuates from month to month it is appropriate to compare the same months in
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year-on-year comparisons. As data for November 2011 are not yet available, October data for each year of interest are presented.
These data are from the Youth Justice Board (YJB) and refer to secure training centres (STCs), secure children's homes (SCHs), and under 18 young offender institutions (YOIs).
Please note that data for October 2010 and October 2011 are provisional. The final October 2010 figures will be presented in the 2010-11 Youth Justice Statistics publication on 26 January 2012. The final October 2011 figures will be presented in the 2011-12 Youth Justice Statistics publication.
| The number of children aged under 18 years by each age held in the secure estate for children and young people at the end of October for (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011 | |||
| Age | October 2009 | October 2010 (1) | October 2011 (1) |
| (1) These figures are provisional. The final October 2010 figures will be presented in the 2010-11 Youth Justice Statistics publication on 26 January 2012. The final October 2011 figures will be presented in the 2011-12 Youth Justice statistics publication Notes: 1. YJB data referring to secure training centres (STCs), secure children's homes (SCHs), and under 18 young offender institutions (YOIs). 2. As the prison population fluctuates from month to month it is appropriate to compare the same months in year-on-year comparisons. As data for November 2011 are not yet available, October data for each year of interest are presented. 3. Youth custodial data are published on a monthly basis; they are a monthly snapshot of the custodial population (taken on the last Friday of the month or first Friday of the following month depending on which is nearer to the actual month end). For October 2010, the total custody figure was taken from daily data supplied by establishments, with breakdowns scaled to the total. This is a standard calculation performed when there is a large discrepancy between the daily data supplied by the establishments and the central database (indicating that the central database has not yet been fully updated) in order to meet commitments to publish the data on a monthly basis. When data are finalised all figures are taken from the central database. 4. 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 and can be subject to change over time. | |||
Youth Justice Reinvestment Pathfinder Initiative
Mrs Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) how many expressions of interest he has received from local authorities for involvement in the Youth Justice Reinvestment Pathfinder initiative; [86659]
(2) for what reasons the Youth Justice Board chose to use the number of custody bed nights rather than custodial sentencing rates as the outcome measure for the Youth Justice Reinvestment Pathfinder initiative; [86660]
(3) if he will place in the Library a copy of the record of bed nights used in custody by (a) legal basis for detention and (b) establishment for each local
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authority area in England and Wales between 2005-06 and 2009-10. [86661]
Mr Blunt: The Youth Justice Board’s (YJB) Youth Reinvestment Pathfinder initiative aims to reduce levels of youth custody in England and Wales. The two-year project, which started in October 2011, gives authorities the freedom and flexibility to use the funding to commission and deliver their own responses to reduce levels of youth custody and youth reoffending in their area.
The YJB received 13 formal expressions of interest for involvement in the initiative. These expressions of interest came from a mixture of individual local authorities and consortia of local authorities.
The YJB counts the number of custody bed nights used by a young person for the initiative. The number of custody bed nights was chosen for the pilot as it was felt that it has a stronger relationship with the costs of custody than looking at the custodial sentencing rates. There are two reasons for this:
The custodial sentencing rate does not take into account actual time spent in custody because of variation in sentence length. The bed night indicator (i.e. the number of nights in custody either remand or sentenced that a young person uses during a period) is a more accurate reflection of the number of people in custody over the period of interest and therefore the cost of custody.
It incorporates both the remand population and custodial sentences. Looking at the number of sentences does not reflect the true costs of custody, as a proportion of the secure estate population are held on remand.
A copy of the record of bed nights used in custody by (a) legal basis for detention and (b) sector for each local authority area in England and Wales between 2005-06 and 2009-10 will be deposited in the Library in due course. This will provide sector level rather than establishment information in order to avoid the risk of a young person being identified.
Youth Justice: North-east England
Mrs Chapman: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much Youth Justice Board grant funding has been made available for youth offending (a) teams and (b) services in each local authority area in the north-east in each year since 2000-01, by project. [85489]
Mr Blunt: This information is contained in two tables which have been deposited in the Library. The majority of Youth Justice Board funding in the north-east goes directly to youth offending teams. We have also included Youth Justice Board funding to secure children's homes in the region.