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Education: Young Offender Institutions

Answer

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) commissions the National Offender Management Service to deliver 25 hours of education, training and personal development to each young person per week in Prison Service YOIs. This includes education and training delivered by Learning and Skills Council providers, as well as training and personal development activities provided or commissioned by the Prison Service.Figures for September 2008 to August 2009 indicate that in Prison Service YOIs, young people in juvenile YOI accommodation received an average of 27.5 hours per person per week of education, training and personal development. These figures encompass a range of education and constructive activities. From October NOMS have implemented new data collection systems which, along with data returns from the LSC, will allow greater accuracy and detail in reporting on education, training and constructive activities in the future.For young people in private YOIs, YJB data shows that young people received an average of 33.9 hours of education, training and personal development activity per week during August 2008 to September 2009.For young people in Secure Children's Homes (SCHs) and Secure Training Centres (STCs) the YJB require that 90 per cent. of young people receive a minimum of 30 hours of education, training and personal development activity per week. The YJB figures available indicate that between September 2008 and August 2009, 91.3 per cent. of young people in SCHs received a minimum of 30 hours of provision and in STCs this was 99 per cent. of young people.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

499 c983-4W; 295933

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Education Young offender institutions

Link

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