Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of young offenders aged 10 to 14 (a) was sent to a young offender institute and (b) received rehabilitative programmes in each year from 2010 to present.

Young people aged 10 to 14 year olds who are sentenced to custody by virtue of their age are not placed in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs), YOIs accommodate only young males who are aged 15-17 years old. Young male or females aged 10 to 14 years old sentenced to custody will either be placed in a Secure Children’s Home (SCH) or a Secure Training Centre (STC).

The table below shows the number of occasions young people were sentenced to a Youth Rehabilitation Order as a proportion of total cautions and convictions given to young people aged 10 to 14 from the year ending March 2010 to the year ending March 2016.

Table 1

Table 2 below shows (a) number of occasions young people aged 10 to 14 were sent to custody as a proportion of total cautions and convictions given to young people aged 10 to 14 and (b) number of occasions young people were sentenced to a Youth Rehabilitation Order as a proportion of total cautions and convictions given to young people aged 10 to 14 from the year ending March 2010 to the year ending March 2016

Table 2

Please note:

Young people aged 10 to 14 cannot be placed in Young Offender Institutions if sentenced to custody and are instead placed in Secure Children's Homes (10 - 14 year olds) or Secure Training Centres (12 - 14 year olds), therefore the proportion of occasions young offenders aged 10 to 14 sent to a Young Offender Institution is 0%.

The data has been sourced from the Youth Justice Board’s JMIS database using case level data from Youth Offending Teams.

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.