Secure Accommodation

Question

Young people are placed in establishments that can most effectively manage their individual needs and risks. The Youth Justice Board is responsible for the placement of young people who are remanded or sentenced to custody.

Table 1 shows the proportion of children and young people on remand (either remanded in custody or remanded to local authority accommodation) who were detained in secure children’s homes each year between 2010 and 2013 (the latest year for which complete data is available).

Table 1: Proportion of children and young people on remand who were detained in secure children’s homes 2010-2013

Notes:

1. The table shows the calendar year in which the young person was sentenced, not the date on which they received a remand decision. This is because a young person can receive multiple remand decisions over multiple dates as part of their court proceedings.

2. Only the most restrictive remand decision applied during the course of the court proceeding is presented. Where a young person was remanded both to local authority accommodation and to custody during the court process, only the remand to custody would be counted as it is the most restrictive remand decision given.

The data presented above comes from the YJB's Youth Justice Management Information System (YJMIS) database. 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.