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TwitterThese statistics concentrate on the flow of children (aged 10 to 17) through the youth justice system in England and Wales. The data described comes from various sources including the Home Office (HO), Youth Custody Service (YCS), Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Youth Justice Services and youth secure estate providers. The report is produced by the Statistics and Analysis Team in the Youth Justice Board (YJB).
Details of the number of children arrested are provided along with proven offences, criminal history, characteristics of children, details of the number of children sentenced, those on remand, those in custody, reoffending and behaviour management.
The report is published, along with supplementary tables for each chapter, additional annexes, local level data, including in an open and accessible format, an infographic and local level maps.
Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons (reflecting the cross-departmental responsibility for children committing crime and reoffending):
Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Minister of State, Deputy Director, Youth Justice Policy, Head of Reducing Reoffending and Probation Data & Statistics, Head of PNC/Criminal Histories Team, Head of News, Deputy Head of News, Lead Psychologist and Reducing Reoffending, Policy lead on YJB and Thematics and the relevant special advisers, private secretaries, statisticians, analyst and press officers.
Head of YCS Information team, Head of briefing, and relevant statisticians and analyst.
YJB Board Chair, Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Director of Business Intelligence and Insights, Head of Statistics and Analysis, Head of Communications and the relevant statisticians, analyst and communication officers.
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TwitterThese statistics concentrate on the flow of children (aged 10 to 17) through the youth justice system in England and Wales. The data described comes from various sources including the Home Office (HO), Youth Custody Service (YCS), Ministry of Justice (MOJ), youth justice services and youth secure estate providers. The report is produced by the Statistics and Analysis Team in the Youth Justice Board (YJB).
Data are provided on the trends of stop and searches, arrests, first time entrants, children cautioned or sentenced, proven offences, criminal history, remand, those in youth custody, proven reoffending and comparisons to the adult system.
The report is published, along with supplementary tables for each chapter, additional annexes, local level data, including in an open and accessible format, an infographic and local level maps.
Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons (reflecting the cross-departmental responsibility for children committing crime and reoffending):
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Minister of State, Deputy Director, Youth Justice Policy, Head of Early Intervention, Prevention and Community Justice, Head of Youth Custody Policy, Resettlement, YOT Performance and Funding, Strategy and Planning & Performance, Head of Reducing Reoffending and Probation Data & Statistics, Reoffending and Probation Statistics Lead, Team leader - PNC and Criminal Histories team, and the relevant special advisers, private secretaries, analysts and press officers.
Youth Custody Service (YCS) Executive Director, YCS Deputy Director, Strategy and Commissioning, YCS Head of Information and Performance and any relevant analysts.
YJB Chair, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Business Intelligence and Insights, Head of Statistics and Analysis, Head of Communications and any relevant analysts and communication officers.
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TwitterThese statistics concentrate on the flow of children (aged 10-17) through the Youth Justice System in England and Wales. The data described comes from various sources including the Home Office (HO), Youth Custody Service (YCS), Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) and youth secure estate providers. The report is produced by the Analysis and Information Team in the Youth Justice Board (YJB) under the direction of the Chief Statistician in MOJ.
Details of the number of children arrested are provided along with proven offences, criminal history, characteristics of children and young people, details of the number of children sentenced, those on remand, those in custody, reoffending and behaviour management.
The report is published, along with supplementary tables for each chapter, additional annexes, local level data, including in an open and accessible format, an infographic and local level maps.
Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons (reflecting the cross-departmental responsibility for juvenile crime and reoffending):
Secretary of State, Minister of State, Permanent Secretary, Chief Statistician, Director General of Offender and Youth Justice Police, Director of Data and Analysis, Director of Youth Justice Policy and Commissioning, and the relevant special advisers, statisticians, policy officers and press officers
Director General of HMPPS, Head of Performance Management Youth Custody Service and Head of Briefing and Operational Policy, Youth Custody Service
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service and Minister for London, and Head of Serious Youth Violence Unit
Chair of the YJB, CEO of the YJB, Chief Operating Officer, and the relevant statisticians and communication officers
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This release will provide local level information on the number of young people aged 10-17 receiving their first reprimand, warning or conviction. It is based on data recorded on the Police National Computer and will include 6 monthly data. The statistics inform local areas of the number of first-time entrants aged 10-17 to the criminal justice system in their area. Source agency: Education Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Young people aged 10-17 receiving their first reprimand, warning or conviction
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TwitterIn 2024/25, there were 209,556 sexual offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, an increase when compared with the previous reporting year and a peak for this type of crime. Between 2002/03 and 2012/13 the number of sexual offences remained quite stable, but from 2013/14 onwards the number of sexual offences has risen dramatically.
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TwitterIn 2024/25, there were 39,645 child cruelty offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, an increase when compared with the previous reporting year and a peak for this type of offence.
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TwitterThis statistic shows the share of 10 to 15 year olds that are positive about the police in their local area in England and Wales in 2012/2013, by age. Such positivity correlated negatively with age, with ten year old respondents as a whole being more positive towards the police than their 15 year old counterparts.
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Annual publication reporting statistics including demographics, remand episodes and behaviour management of young offenders. Source agency: Justice Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Youth Justice Statistics
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Crime-related incidents experienced by children aged 10-15 in England and Wales: experimental statistics from the British Crime Survey based on the first 12 months data (year ending December 2009)
Source agency: Home Office
Designation: Experimental Official Statistics
Language: English
Alternative title: Victimisation of children aged 10-15
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TwitterThe guide provides more detail on youth justice statistics presented in:
This is intended to be used as a guide to data sources, concepts and definitions.
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An estimate of the proportion and number of police recorded crimes committed by young people aged 10 to 17 in 2009/10. The approach used was to apply data on proven offending from the Police National Computer, which contains the key information on the age of proven offenders, to police recorded crime statistics. The analysis estimates that young people aged 10 to 17 were responsible for 23 per cent of police recorded crime in 2009/10, equivalent to just over a million police recorded crimes. This finding highlights the importance of tackling crime by young people in reducing overall levels of crime.
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TwitterThis statistic shows the share of 10 to 15 year olds that think the local police are helpful and friendly to young people in England and Wales from 2009/2010 to 2012/2013. The percentage did not experience any significant change over this four year period.
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TwitterThis statistic shows the share of 10 to 15 year olds that believe the local police will help them if they need it in England and Wales from 2009/2010 to 2012/2013. The percentage was consistently quite high and also experienced growth over this four year period.
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Police recorded crime figures by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership areas (which equate in the majority of instances, to local authorities).
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Annual data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). Data include when and where incidents happened, information about offenders, the victim's perception of the incident, and who they reported the incident to.
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TwitterThis statistic shows the number of young people found guilty of robbery in England and Wales in 2018/19, by age group. For the ages 15-17 there were 939 young offenders who were sentenced for such crimes.
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TwitterThis statistic shows the number of young people found guilty of theft offences in England and Wales in 2018/19, by age group. There were 2,392 young offenders aged 15-17 who were sentenced for such crimes.
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TwitterThis statistic shows the share of 10 to 15 year olds that think the local police treat young people the same as adults in England and Wales from 2009/2010 to 2012/2013. The percentage was rather low but did experience a slight net increase over this four year period.
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The Youth Justice Annual Workload Data covers the workload of Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) in England and Wales and contains information on: proven offences which have resulted in a disposal; court remands; disposals; intensive supervision and surveillance programmes; young people in custody. Source agency: Justice Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Youth Justice Board caseload statistics
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TwitterThis special dataset gathers variables from the CSEW about the Criminal Justice System (CJS), socio-demographic information and some victimisation details, extends and aggregates them. The study was also influenced by the work of Farrall et al. (2013), held under SN 7875 - Long-Term Trajectories of Crime in the United Kingdom, 1982-2013. Further information can be found in the documentation.
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The data were originally compiled in R and deposited in comma-separated CSV format. The R scripts are available in the download zip files for all formats (SPSS, Stata and CSV), as the derivation and analysis information contained in them may also be useful to SPSS and Stata users. Those users who prefer to analyse the data in R using the original CSV version should select the CSV download file.
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TwitterThese statistics concentrate on the flow of children (aged 10 to 17) through the youth justice system in England and Wales. The data described comes from various sources including the Home Office (HO), Youth Custody Service (YCS), Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Youth Justice Services and youth secure estate providers. The report is produced by the Statistics and Analysis Team in the Youth Justice Board (YJB).
Details of the number of children arrested are provided along with proven offences, criminal history, characteristics of children, details of the number of children sentenced, those on remand, those in custody, reoffending and behaviour management.
The report is published, along with supplementary tables for each chapter, additional annexes, local level data, including in an open and accessible format, an infographic and local level maps.
Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons (reflecting the cross-departmental responsibility for children committing crime and reoffending):
Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Minister of State, Deputy Director, Youth Justice Policy, Head of Reducing Reoffending and Probation Data & Statistics, Head of PNC/Criminal Histories Team, Head of News, Deputy Head of News, Lead Psychologist and Reducing Reoffending, Policy lead on YJB and Thematics and the relevant special advisers, private secretaries, statisticians, analyst and press officers.
Head of YCS Information team, Head of briefing, and relevant statisticians and analyst.
YJB Board Chair, Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Director of Business Intelligence and Insights, Head of Statistics and Analysis, Head of Communications and the relevant statisticians, analyst and communication officers.