Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parents wait (a) less than one month, (b) more than one month and (c) more than three months to see their children at a child contact centre.
Answered by Phillip Lee
The Government does not hold such information because we do not operate any central referral system for child contact sessions.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding his Department has allocated to support the establishment and operation of child contact centres in England in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
The Government has no overall responsibility for funding child contact centre provision. However, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) procures contact sessions at supervised child contact centres for families involved in family proceedings. The level of funding is dependent on demand but has remained broadly stable since 2014/15. Cafcass also provides small value grants of up to £3,000 per annum to assist child contact centres run by the voluntary sector (supported centres), where such organisations seek financial assistance. The value of these grants decreased in 2013/14 due to additional top-up funding for these centres provided in 2012/13 before increasing in 2014/15. Funding since 2015/16 has remained broadly stable.
The Ministry of Justice, and previously the Department for Education, has provided core grant funding to the National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC) to help it set standards and run an accreditation scheme for child contact centres in England, supported by training. The value of this grant has increased in each of the last three years.
Funding for the financial years 2013/14 to 2017/18 are shown in the table below. Unit cost efficiencies, changes in demand volume and changes to the ways suppliers are paid mean that figures are not directly comparable across all financial years.
Core grant funding of child contact centres: financial years 2013/14 to 2017/18
| 2013/14 £ | 2014/15 £ | 2015/16 £ | 2016/17 £ | 2017/18 (provisional) £ |
Supervised child contact centres | 2,443,305 | 1,579,351 | 1,368,605 | 1,546,065 | 1,599,074 |
Supported child contact centres | 160,585 | 385,544 | 446,223 | 447,787 | 434,800 |
NACCC core grant | 128,6051 | 128.9581 | 130,0002 | 170,000 | 192,000 |
Notes: 1 Department for Education. 2 Transitional year with a grant of £65,000 each from Ministry of Justice and Department for Education. | |||||
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) full-time and (b part-ime speech and language therapists are employed to provide services for each young offenders institution in England and Wales; and how many hours of service provision are scheduled at each such institution each week.
Answered by Phillip Lee
The table below shows how many young people (under 18) are in each Young Offender Institution (YOI) in England and Wales:
| Year ending March | ||
Under 18 YOI | 2016 | 2017 | 2018(1) |
Cookham Wood | 135 | 136 | 144 |
Feltham | 129 | 124 | 133 |
Parc | 49 | 45 | 42 |
Werrington | 101 | 100 | 95 |
Wetherby | 242 | 225 | 219 |
Total | 656 | 630 | 632 |
Notes:
The table below shows how many young adults (18 -20 years old) are in each YOI in England and Wales.
18 - 21 dedicated YOIs | As at 31 December 2017 |
Aylesbury | 313 |
Cookham Wood | 29 |
Deerbolt | 315 |
Feltham | 325 |
Werrington | 11 |
Wetherby | 28 |
Total | 1,021 |
Notes:
In the Children and Young People Secure Estate (under 18s), speech and language therapy is integrated into the overall commissioning of health services. We are committed to supporting all young offenders in custody and provide a range of services for children with special educational needs. Within the under 18 YOIs, each establishment has a Special Educational Needs co-ordinator (SENCO) and a team of LSA’s (Learning Support Assistants) to support the young people. The Senco keeps a register of young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, including their individual needs, and shares the information with the establishment. All young people have Individual Learning Plans set up and reviewed by the education provider, regardless of whether they receive mainstream or outreach education. We do not collect data centrally relating to speech, language or communication needs.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many young offenders aged (a) 15-17 and (b) 18-20 years old are in each young offenders institution in England and Wales; and how many in each such age group at each such institution are identified as having speech, language or communications needs.
Answered by Phillip Lee
The table below shows how many young people (under 18) are in each Young Offender Institution (YOI) in England and Wales:
| Year ending March | ||
Under 18 YOI | 2016 | 2017 | 2018(1) |
Cookham Wood | 135 | 136 | 144 |
Feltham | 129 | 124 | 133 |
Parc | 49 | 45 | 42 |
Werrington | 101 | 100 | 95 |
Wetherby | 242 | 225 | 219 |
Total | 656 | 630 | 632 |
Notes:
The table below shows how many young adults (18 -20 years old) are in each YOI in England and Wales.
18 - 21 dedicated YOIs | As at 31 December 2017 |
Aylesbury | 313 |
Cookham Wood | 29 |
Deerbolt | 315 |
Feltham | 325 |
Werrington | 11 |
Wetherby | 28 |
Total | 1,021 |
Notes:
In the Children and Young People Secure Estate (under 18s), speech and language therapy is integrated into the overall commissioning of health services. We are committed to supporting all young offenders in custody and provide a range of services for children with special educational needs. Within the under 18 YOIs, each establishment has a Special Educational Needs co-ordinator (SENCO) and a team of LSA’s (Learning Support Assistants) to support the young people. The Senco keeps a register of young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, including their individual needs, and shares the information with the establishment. All young people have Individual Learning Plans set up and reviewed by the education provider, regardless of whether they receive mainstream or outreach education. We do not collect data centrally relating to speech, language or communication needs.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) violent incidents and (b) assaults on prison staff have been recorded for each young offenders institution in England and Wales in the last twelve months.
Answered by Phillip Lee
(a) Data on the number and types of incidents that occur in under-18 young offender institutions is published in the quarterly Safety in Custody bulletin. This does not include a single category of ‘violent incidents’. The latest published figures for under-18 Young Offender Institutions covers the years 2007 to Dec 2017 and is contained in the link below. The next quarterly figures will be published in April 2018.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-update-to-september-2017
(b) The table below shows the latest data available (2016) on the number of assaults and serious assaults on staff within the under 18 Young Offender Institutions. Data for 2017 will be published in April 2018.
| Cookham Wood | Feltham | Parc | Werrington | Wetherby |
No of Assaults on staff | 126 | 182 | 245 | 138 | 97 |
No of serious assaults on staff | 9 | 32 | 21 | 10 | 23 |
Note : An assault is classified as serious if it : is a sexual assault, results in detention in outside hospital as an inpatient, requires medical treatment for concussion or internal injuries or the injury is a fracture, scald or burn, stabbing, crushing, extensive or multiple bruising, black eye, broken nose, lost or broken tooth, cuts requiring suturing or similar treatment, bites, or temporary or permanent blindness.
Data for Feltham and Parc includes young adults as they are split sites.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many magistrates serving in England and Wales are (a) from an ethnic minority and (b) aged (i) 21-30, (ii) 31-40, (iii) 41-50, (iv) 51-60 and (v) over 60 years old.
Answered by Lucy Frazer
The number of magistrates serving as at 1 April 2017 in England and Wales can be found in the Judicial Diversity Statistics at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/judicial-diversity-statistics-2017--2.
The information requesting how many of those magistrates currently serving in these areas were serving in March in each of the last five years could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The number of magistrates serving in England and Wales as at 1 April in the last five years can be found in the Judicial Diversity Statistics Archive at https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/?filter_type=publication&search=&tax-single-subject=171&tax-single-publication-type=169&tax-single-publication-jurisdiction=-1&date-range-after=&date-range-before
The number of serving magistrates in England and Wales by (a) ethnic minority and (b) by age category is also available in the public domain and can be accessed via the links provided above.
The published data covers the period up to 1st April 2017. We plan to publish data which covers the period up to 1st April 2018 in July.