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 recruited to positions 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 joined the Youth Custody Estate is given in the table below.
Table 1 - Headcount of new joiners in Youth Custody Service prisons, by ethnicity, as at 31 March since 2010, and latest position as at 30 September 2023
12 months to: | Ethnic Minority | White | Unknown | Total |
31/03/2010 | 7 | 35 | 14 | 56 |
31/03/2011 | 7 | 72 | 27 | 106 |
31/03/2012 | 5 | 34 | 9 | 48 |
31/03/2013 | ~ | ~ | 55 | 68 |
31/03/2014 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
31/03/2015 | 12 | 76 | 63 | 151 |
31/03/2016 | 15 | 102 | 111 | 228 |
31/03/2017 | 11 | 59 | 57 | 127 |
31/03/2018 | ~ | ~ | 305 | 310 |
31/03/2019 | 23 | 92 | 375 | 490 |
31/03/2020 | 9 | 27 | 67 | 103 |
31/03/2021 | 9 | 30 | 121 | 160 |
31/03/2022 | 30 | 96 | 164 | 290 |
31/03/2023 | 39 | 103 | 199 | 341 |
30/09/2023 | 66 | 193 | 164 | 423 |
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’.
4. Joiners are new recruits to HMPPS and figures do not include internal movements.