Young Offender Institutions: Ethnic Groups
(asked on 20th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many ethnic minority staff were employed in the youth secure estate in each reporting year since 2010.
The headcount of staff who declared that they were from an ethnic minority background and who work in prisons currently part of the Youth Custody Service is given in the table below.
Table 1 - Headcount of staff in Youth Custody Service prisons, declared from an ethnic minority background, as at 31 March since 2010, and latest position as at 30 September 2023.
As at | Ethnic Minority | White | Unknown | Total |
31/03/2010 | 166 | 1,224 | 105 | 1,495 |
31/03/2011 | 163 | 1,257 | 123 | 1,543 |
31/03/2012 | 162 | 1,225 | 110 | 1,497 |
31/03/2013 | 159 | 1,159 | 142 | 1,460 |
31/03/2014 | 145 | 1,043 | 122 | 1,310 |
31/03/2015 | 131 | 985 | 149 | 1,265 |
31/03/2016 | 135 | 913 | 230 | 1,278 |
31/03/2017 | 145 | 942 | 309 | 1,396 |
31/03/2018 | 134 | 844 | 538 | 1,516 |
31/03/2019 | 191 | 1,080 | 566 | 1,837 |
31/03/2020 | 207 | 1,122 | 253 | 1,582 |
31/03/2021 | 211 | 1,115 | 263 | 1,589 |
31/03/2022 | 228 | 1,128 | 277 | 1,633 |
31/03/2023 | 251 | 1,095 | 304 | 1,650 |
30/09/2023 | 276 | 1,158 | 264 | 1,698 |
Notes
1. The Youth Custody Service (YCS), created in April 2017 to oversee day-to-day management of the under 18s young people’s estate. Youth Custody Estate includes the following prisons: Cookham Wood, Feltham, Werrington, Wetherby and Medway Secure Training Centre (which closed in March 2020)
2. Ethnicity is a self-declared field and is optional to complete.
3. Unknown includes those who hadn’t declared their ethnicity as well as those who responded ‘Prefer Not To Say’.