Youth Custody: Crimes of Violence

(asked on 20th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many incidents of offender-on-offender violence there have been in (a) secure children's homes, (b) secure training centres, (c) youth offender institutions and (d) young offenders institutions in each year since May 2010.


Answered by
Andrew Selous Portrait
Andrew Selous
Second Church Estates Commissioner
This question was answered on 25th January 2016

Statistics on assaults where the victim was a young person accommodated in the secure estate are published in the annual Youth Justice Statistics report (in chapter 8, table 17). In Secure Children’s Homes, young people are held on welfare grounds as well as criminal grounds. The latest published information includes assaults by a young offender where the victim is placed in the Secure Children's Home (SCH) on welfare or criminal grounds and covers the period from the year ending March 2010 to the year ending March 2014. More up to date information covering up to the year ending March 2015 will be available at 9.30am on 28 January 2016 at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/youth-justice-statistics


Prisoner on prisoner assault figures are published at an establishment level and can be found here (see assaults in prison custody 2000-2014, table 16): https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/safety-in-custody-quarterly-bulletin-june-2015

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