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Challenges we face in England and in Wales

Five Nations Conference on Children, Young People and Crime ‘Producing the Goods? – a perspective from England’ John Drew Chief Executive, Youth Justice Board for England and Wales 5 th September 2012. Challenges we face in England and in Wales. How to build a youth justice system that is:.

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Challenges we face in England and in Wales

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  1. Five Nations Conference on Children, Young People and Crime‘Producing the Goods? – a perspective from England’John Drew Chief Executive, Youth Justice Board for England and Wales5th September 2012

  2. Challenges we face in England and in Wales • How to build a youth justice system that is: Some of these are unique to our jurisdiction, others probably have a more common currency

  3. Foreword - the current state of youth justice in England and Wales • How the English and Welsh system is performing at the moment • The UK Government’s reform agenda for England and Wales • How England and Welsh youth justice is diverging

  4. The basics about youth justice in England and Wales • 11 million children in England • 705,000 children in Wales • In 2010/11: • 242,000 children arrested • 72,000 court disposals • 85,000 children supervised by YOTs • 1,811 children in custody (April 2012)

  5. How the English and Welsh youth justice system is performing at the moment • Over the last ten years …

  6. First-time entrants to the criminal justice system

  7. Proven offences committed by young people

  8. Reoffending: Proportion of offenders who reoffend (binary)

  9. Reoffending: Average number of re-offences per offender (frequency)

  10. Average secure estate population

  11. Reprise - Challenges we face in England & Wales • How to build a youth justice system that is:

  12. Effective youth justice?

  13. Building public confidence? The challenge – winning greater acceptance of the reform agenda without imperilling the progress of the last few years

  14. In conclusion … • These challenges are being faced in times of huge financial retrenchment • But it also a time of opportunity and change throughout youth justice in England and Wales • Youth justice is a grass roots movement as much as it is an area of criminology or a organisational form for teams and departments • The challenge – there is much that we could and should learn from each • other, how are we going to do this? • John Drew • Chief Executive, Youth Justice Board • john.drew@yjb.gov.uk • 020 3372 8014 • 07946 854605

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