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Youth Justice Statistics

Youth justice statistics.

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
24 April 2025 — See all updates

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

Updates to this page

Published 11 October 2013
Last updated 24 April 2025 show all updates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  8. 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

  9. Updated to December 2021

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

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

  12. Youth Justice statistics: 2017 to 2018 added

  13. New statistics added for 2016 to 2017

  14. New statistics added for 2013 to 2014

  15. Moved annual statistics here from another page

  16. First published.

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