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Youth Justice Statistics

Youth justice statistics.

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From:
Ministry of Justice, HM Prison and Probation Service, Youth Custody Service and Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
Published:
11 October 2013
Last updated:
30 July 2026
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  1. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to March 2026 added

  2. Official Statistics in Development on Diversions with youth justice service (YJS) involvement have now been published. This publication includes summary data collected from YJSs for the calendar year 2025 on the numbers and proportions of diversionary outcomes, the demographics of children given such outcomes and the offences leading to diversionary outcomes.

  3. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to December 2025 added

  4. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to September 2025 added

  5. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to June 2025 added

  6. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to March 2025 added

  7. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to December 2024 added.

  8. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate update to September 2024 added.

  9. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to June 2024 added.

  10. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to March 2024 added to Youth Justice Statistics

  11. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to December 2023 added.

  12. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to September 2023 added

  13. Latest edition of Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate added

  14. Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to March 2023 added Guide to Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate updated

  15. Updated to December 2021

  16. Latest edition of Safety in Children and Young People Secure Estate added

  17. Added Safety in the children and young people secure estate bulletin

  18. Youth Justice statistics: 2017 to 2018 added

  19. New statistics added for 2016 to 2017

  20. New statistics added for 2013 to 2014

  21. Moved annual statistics here from another page

  22. First published.

Overview of statistics for youth justice.

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Youth justice annual statistics

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is responsible for publishing the youth justice annual statistics (annual) and experimental statistics, such as ‘assessing the needs of sentenced children in the youth justice system’ (annual).

The annual statistics concentrate on the flow of children aged 10-17 through the youth justice system in England and Wales.

Details of all the administrative databases and bespoke collections used for youth justice statistics can be found in a guide to youth justice statistics. This contains further information on the data sources, methodologies, data quality and terminology.

Youth secure estate statistics

The Youth Custody Service (YCS) is responsible for the development of the following two publications; ‘youth custody data’ (monthly) and ‘safety in the children and young people secure estate bulletin’ (quarterly).

Ad-hoc and topical statistics

Guidance documents

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