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<p>Overall crime and proven offending by young people has fallen in recent years.
Fewer young people have entered the criminal justice system, and as a result fewer
young people have ended up in custody. This has allowed excess capacity in the youth
secure estate to be decommissioned.</p><p> </p><p>The Table below shows the (a) capacity
and (b) population of each Secure Children's Home, Secure Training Centre and under-18
Young Offender Institution at the end of February in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 and
at the end of January in 2014 (this is the latest available published data for 2014).
This relates to either the last Friday of the month in question, or the first Friday
of the following month, depending on which is closest to final day of the month. Data
for the end of February therefore offers the closest available published data to 1
March.</p><p> </p><p>The “capacity” figure relates to the number of beds available,
allowing for any “out of commission” beds due to for example, damage to rooms or contractual
changes.</p><p> </p><p>This information comes from the Youth Justice Board's Secure
Accommodation Clearing House System (SACHS) database and eAsset database. The January
2014 database is provisional. The final 2013/14 figures will be finalised in 2013/14
Youth Justice Statistics to be published in January 2015.</p><p> </p><p>These figures
have been drawn from administrative IT systems, which, as with any large scale recording
system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing and can be subject
to change over time.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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