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Young Offender Institutions: Education

Volume 493: debated on Monday 8 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much funding each young offender institution (YOI) received from the Learning and Skills Council for the provision of education and training in the last 12 months; and how many hours per week education and training were provided on average in each YOI. (277298)

Education in public sector young offender institutions (YOIs) in England is currently provided by contractors appointed by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).

The LSC learning providers are contracted to deliver a minimum of 15 hours per learner per week. The delivery of the remaining hours to meet the Youth Justice Board requirement of 25 hours per learner per week is the responsibility of the Prison Service. Therefore the figures below do not represent the total spend on education and training or the total average number hours of education and training received by juvenile young people in YOIs because they do not include provision funded and delivered by the Prison Service delivered as part of the wider regimes.

The following table shows the Learning and Skills Council’s total spend in each YOI in the academic year 2007/08 (the most recent figures available) and the average number of hours per learner per week engaged in LSC funded learning and skills which this funding represented.

Some YOIs are ‘split-site’ and contain both ‘juveniles’ (young people mostly aged 15-17, and some 18 year olds near the end of their sentence), and ‘young adults’ aged 18-20, and the figures below cover juveniles only. The data for ‘young adults’ are collected differently and cannot be readily extracted in the same way.

1 August 2007 to 31 July 2008

Establishment

Spend (£)

Average hours per learner per week for those engaged in learning

Castington (split site)1

1,244,101.00

18.04

Lancaster Farms

982,054.00

18.05

Hindley

1,764,889.00

16.94

Eastwood Park

255,015.00

16.15

Brinsford (split site)1

1,256,545.00

14.03

Cookham Wood

259,989.00

2

Downview

252,109.00

19.88

Feltham (split site)1

1,907,053.00

22.71

Foston Hall

249,403.00

19.29

Huntercombe

2,256,948.00

14.74

New Hall

383,455.00

22.07

Stoke Heath (split site)1

1,729,089.00

11.38

Warren Hill

1,653,539.00

12.46

Werrington

1,015,765.00

15.36

Wetherby

2,045,829.00

17.94

Total

17,255,789.00

317.07

1 The funding against the split sites only applies to the 15-17 year olds, and does not include the 18-21 (for which the figures cannot be extracted)

2 Between January 2008 and April 2008 there were no young people in Cookham Wood therefore it is not possible to calculate an average that can reasonably be compared to other establishments.

3 This average excludes Cookham Wood