{"id":73992,"date":"2016-09-09T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0d4b4aa8df5ef67627c596d10aee19f0"},"modified":"2016-09-09T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T08:40:00","slug":"press-release-lowest-ever-number-of-young-of-people-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73992","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Lowest ever number of young people in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Colin Allars YJB Chief Executive said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The number of young people in custody has fallen to its lowest ever level \u2013 just 861 were in custody in July 2016, 73% lower than October 2002 when there were 3,200. Those working across the whole youth justice sector have delivered a huge reduction in the numbers of children in the system \u2013 falling from 147,800 at its peak in 2006\/7 to just 37,900 in 2014\/15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This has significantly reduced the impact of young people\u2019s offending on society, their potential victims, and on the young people themselves, as well as helping to deliver savings to the economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<p>You can view the custody statistics on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/youth-justice-statistics\">GOV.UK<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_1779\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Youth Justice Board media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"fn\">Youth Justice Board press office<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"street-address\">102 Petty France<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLondon<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSW1H 9AJ<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:Media1@yjb.gsi.gov.uk\">Media1@yjb.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press office<\/span><br \/>\n              020 3334 6446\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">For out-of-hours please contact the following<\/span><br \/>\n              07958361491\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The YJB responds to the publication by the Ministry of Justice of monthly statistics on the numbers of children and young people within the secure estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74001,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73992\/revisions\/74001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}