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Remand in Custody: Young People

Answer

I have been asked to reply.The Youth Justice Board reports the number of hours per week that young people spend undertaking education, training and personal development activities across the secure estate. This is a broad category that includes education provision delivered by learning providers commissioned by the Learning and Skills Council, as well as interventions, group work sessions, vocational training, and physical education classes delivered directly by the Prison Service or institution.The YJB have introduced a new set of data items to allow them to monitor the secure estate. Data based on a new and more robust set of indicators are presented here for STCs and SCHs for September 2009. Data using the previous indicator are presented for YOIs. This information is presented in the following tables.The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) reports that the average number of hours of OLASS funded learning and skills provision (not including personal development activity) delivered per learner per week in the public sector YOIs in the academic year 1 August 2008 to 31 July 2009 was 15.89 hours.Data are not broken down to show the number of hours spent on education, training and personal development by young people held on remand but the information from the YJB and the LSC includes young people held on remand.The data supplied by the Youth Justice Board are drawn from administrative computer systems. As with any large scale recording system, the data are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and may be subject to change over time.

September 2009
	Average number of hours
Average hours of education, training and personal development activity per week for young people at Public youth offenders institutes (YOIs)	25.6
Average hours of education, training and personal development activity per week for young people at Private youth offenders institutes (YOIs)	21.8
Average hours of education received per young person per week at SCHs	23.5
Average hours of education received per young person per week at STCs	25.8

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

505 c346-7W; 314582

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Education Remand in custody Young offender institutions

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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