(2) what proportion of (a) juvenile and (b) young adult offenders were reconvicted within two years of release from secure training centres in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement;
(3) what proportion of (a) juvenile and (b) young adult offenders were reconvicted within two years of release from young offenders institutions in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Young adult offenders are not placed in secure training centres or secure children's homes. The Ministry of Justice statistical bulletin ‘Re-offending of Juveniles: results from the 2005 cohort’ (July 2007) found that 76 per cent. of young people aged under 18 discharged from custody in the first quarter of 2005 re-offended within a year. It analysed the figures in various ways: for example by age, by ethnicity and by offence sanctioned. However, there would be difficulty in attempting such an analysis by type of custodial establishment, because transfers occur between different types of establishment and the number of offenders given custodial sentences is very small compared to other disposals.