Criminal Cases Review Commission: Children and Young People
(asked on 25th March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the ability of children and young people to easily access the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
This question was answered on 13th April 2021
In 2019-20 the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) estimated that 3.5% of the people applying to the CCRC were aged 21 or under. Although this number continues to represent a small proportion of the people accessing the Commission, the CCRC continues to reach out to juveniles and others through engagement workshops, outreach videos and making improvements to its application forms, in order to increase awareness amongst young people.