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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list for each police authority area the (a) number and (b) percentage of pupils permanently excluded from school who committed a criminal offence in each of the last 10 years; [140645] (2) if he will list, for each police authority area, over the last 10 years the level of detection of crimes committed by young offenders who (a) were and (b) were not permanently excluded from school. [140644] Mr. Charles Clarke: Recorded crime figures and court proceedings statistics do not provide information on offences committed by young people according to whether or not they had been permanently excluded from school. However, information is available from the 1998-99 Youth Lifestyles Survey (YLS). The YLS showed that two per cent. of 12 to 30-year-olds interviewed had been permanently excluded from school at some time. Of these, 34 per cent. admitted one or more of a list of 27 offences in the last year compared to 18 per cent. of those who had not been excluded. Nine per cent. of those who had been permanently excluded from school had been cautioned (either formally or informally) or taken to court in the past year, against two per cent. of those who had not been permanently excluded. A study for the Youth Justice Board, conducted by MORI, used a broader definition of offending, and targeted those who were currently permanently excluded from school. Of those permanently excluded, 72 per cent. admitted offending in the last year compared to 22 per cent. of those currently in school.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

357 c685-6W;357 c685W; 140645;140644

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Crime Pupil exclusions Young people Young offenders Detection rates

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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