Young Offender Institutions: Children
(asked on 10th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many safeguarding referrals to a local authority were made by each custodial institution holding children in 2018.
The information requested is shown in the table below, compiled via individual responses from establishments.
It is worth noting that data between establishments is not directly comparable. Safeguarding referrals from the youth secure estate to Local Authorities are handled by secure estate establishment staff, as are the maintenance of supporting records. Data provided in this response is therefore the amalgamation of bespoke local records, and is not based with a single methodology. Furthermore, different local authorities have varying protocols in place. For example, in some potential referrals can be ‘triaged’ or reviewed by an on-site social worker before a formal referral is made; in other cases there may be no such arrangement in place and all cases are formally referred to the local authority. This variation in local arrangements, as well as differences in average population and throughout, most likely explains the disparity in volumes.
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2018 (calendar year) - Safeguarding referrals made from YCS establishments to Local Authorities | ||||||||||||||||
Sector Type | Establishment | Safegaurding Referrals to LA - 2018 | Avg Population - 2018 | Share of Population | Share of referrals | |||||||||||
Secure Children's Home | Adel Beck | 7 | 14.2 | 1.5% | 1.2% | |||||||||||
Secure Children's Home | Aldine House | 6 | 3.4 | 0.4% | 1.0% | |||||||||||
Secure Children's Home | Aycliffe | 5 | 10.0 | 1.0% | 0.8% | |||||||||||
Secure Children's Home | Barton Moss | 4 | 23.9 | 2.5% | 0.7% | |||||||||||
Secure Children's Home | Clayfields House | 7 | 11.8 | 1.2% | 1.2% | |||||||||||
Secure Children's Home | Hillside | 19 | 5.4 | 0.6% | 3.2% | |||||||||||
Secure Children's Home | Lincolnshire | 9 | 9.1 | 0.9% | 1.5% | |||||||||||
Secure Children's Home | Vinney Green | 5 | 19.8 | 2.1% | 0.8% | |||||||||||
Secure Training Centre | Medway | 46 | 39.5 | 4.1% | 7.7% | |||||||||||
Secure Training Centre | Oakhill | 104 | 58.7 | 6.1% | 17.5% | |||||||||||
Secure Training Centre | Rainsbrook | 179 | 61.8 | 6.4% | 30.1% | |||||||||||
Young Offender Institutes | Cookham | 65 | 166.3 | 17.3% | 10.9% | |||||||||||
Young Offender Institutes | Feltham | 86 | 145.3 | 15.1% | 14.5% | |||||||||||
Young Offender Institutes | Parc | 8 | 39.8 | 4.1% | 1.3% | |||||||||||
Young Offender Institutes | Werrington | 30 | 105.5 | 11.0% | 5.0% | |||||||||||
Young Offender Institutes | Wetherby | 15 | 248.2 | 25.8% | 2.5% | |||||||||||
Totals | 595 | 962.5 | 100.0% | 100.0% | ||||||||||||
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The Youth Custody Service take the safety and wellbeing of children in custody very seriously. This is why they have been conducting an internal review of safeguarding across the youth secure estate, and are appointing to a new ‘Head of Safeguarding’ post to lead on taking forward this important area of work.