Youth Justice News
| Author | Tim Bateman |
| DOI | 10.1177/1473225407078780 |
| Published date | 01 August 2007 |
| Date | 01 August 2007 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
YOUTH JUSTICE NEWS
Copyright 2007 The National Association for Youth Justice
Published by SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi)
www.sagepublications.com
ISSN 1473-2254, Vol 7(2): 149–160
DOI: 10.1177/1473225407078780
Youth Justice News
Compiled by Tim Bateman
Correspondence: Tim Bateman, Nacro, 169 Clapham Road, London SW9 0PU, UK. Email:
tim.batemanVnacro.org.uk
Numbers Working in Youth Justice Continue to Rise
On 15 March 2007, in answer to a parliamentary question, Gerry Sutcliffe, Under
Secretary of State for Criminal Justice and Offender Management, indicated that the
number of staff working in youth offending teams (YOTS) in England and Wales had
risen by just over 20 per cent between 2004/05 and 2006/07 from 16,057 to 19,356.
The figures include part-time staff, temporary staff, and volunteers.
While significant expansion in staffing is the dominant theme, the rate of increase
appears to be slowing from 12.2 per cent in the first year covered by the data to 7.5
per cent in the most recent 12 months. Nor is the picture uniform. Despite the overall
increase in the last year, the number of youth justice staff fell in 52 YOT areas, around
one-third of the total.
According to Youth Justice Annual Statistics, YOT income has also risen sharply in the
recent period, by more than 20 per cent between 2002/03 and 2005/06. During the
latter year, the total budget available to YOTs stood at £245.6 million, with the biggest
contribution, 41.5 per cent coming from children’s services/social services and a further
20.5 per cent from the Youth Justice Board. Health and education by contrast jointly
accounted for 9.9 per cent of YOT funding.
Mr Sutcliffe’s answer is given at Hansard, House of Commons,Column 561W, 15 March 2007. Figures for
YOT funding are given in Youth Justice Annual Statistics 2005/06 available at www.yjb.gov.uk/en-b/
practitioners/MonitoringandImprovingPractice/AnnualStatistics/
Breaches of ASBOs Rise as the Number of Individual Support Orders
Remains Low
According to the latest data released by the Home Office, a total of 3997 anti-social
behaviour orders (ASBOs) were issued against children and young people in England
and Wales between April 1999 and December 2005. Thirty-nine per cent of these
orders were issued during 2005 alone, indicative of a continued expansion in the use
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