Written question asked by Humfrey Malins (Conservative) on Monday, 11 January 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 13 January 2010. It was answered by Maria Eagle (Labour) on Tuesday, 19 January 2010 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Medway Secure Training Centre

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what percentage of young offenders aged (a) 12 to 15 and (b) over 15 years released from Medway Secure Training Centre have been convicted of a further offence within 12 months of release in each of the last five years.

Answer

Data are not available for the reoffending rates of young offenders released from individual secure training centres. Individual establishment names are not included in the datasets used to produce the reoffending statistics.Information on the rates of reoffending for all young offenders aged 12 to 15 and 16 to 17 and released from custody (from young offender institutions, secure training centres or secure children's homes) is available, however. The proportion of offenders that committed a further offence within 12 months of release is shown in the following table, split by age group.

Cohort	Age	Number of offenders	Percentage of offenders that committed a further offence
2003	12-15	133	78.2
	16-17	653	72.9

2004	12-15	209	80.4
	16-17	606	75.1

2005	12-15	193	80.8
	16-17	649	71.0

2006	12-15	200	83.0
	16-17	617	75.0

2007	12-15	171	78.9
	16-17	607	74.3

For more information on juvenile reoffending rates please see the publication 'Reoffending of juveniles: Results from the 2007 cohort; which is available from:"http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/reoffendingjuveniles.htm"

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Type: Written question
Reference: 504 c250-1W; 310685
Session: 2009-10
Subjects: Medway Secure Training Centre
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Medway Secure Training Centre

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