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<p><strong>Under-18 YOIs</strong></p><p>Since 16 August 2015, education providers
in public sector under-18 Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) have been required to
provide 27 hours of education a week, supplemented by three hours of physical education.
Whist the majority of education time is protected, young people will miss some lessons
to attend appointments such as court appearances, medical appointments and legal visits
and therefore the average hours of educations received will be less than the 27 provided.</p><p>Although
youth crime is down, reoffending rates are far too high and the care and supervision
of young offenders in custody is not good enough. That is why the Justice Secretary
has asked Charlie Taylor to conduct a review of youth justice.</p><p> </p><p>The following
table provides the average number of classroom based education hours, alternative
activities hours and physical education hours accessed by under-18 public sector YOIs
since 16 August 2015.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Average hours of education or alternative
activities and physical education at public sector under-18 Young Offenders Institutions
since 16 August 2015</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong> <strong>
</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Feltham</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cookham Wood</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Werrington</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wetherby</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Average
hours accessed by young offenders</strong></p></td><td><p>23.15</p></td><td><p>17.07</p></td><td><p>24.78</p></td><td><p>20.44</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>
</strong></p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p>(1) Average hours includes alternative
activities (interventions relating to offending behaviour, focus groups, release on
temporary licence, unit cleaning and catering etc) and physical education.</p><p>(2)
Data are provided by the National Offender Management Service. 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>(3) This table does not include outreach education provision,
which is provided to young people who are not able to engage with class room based
education. The YJB currently commissions up to 15 hours of this type of provision
for a set number of young people at each YOI.</p><p><strong>Under-18 YOI Parc</strong></p><p>YOI
Parc is operated by G4S and is currently contracted to provide 25 hours of education
and 5 hours of interventions each week. The average number of hours of education or
vocational training delivered per young person per school week at Parc YOI in calendar
year 2015 was 23.7 (see notes below).</p><p><strong>Secure training Centres (STCs)</strong></p><p>STCs
are currently contracted to provide 25 hours of education and 5 hours of interventions
each week. From 1 April 2016 at Medway STC and 5 May 2016 at Rainsbrook STC new contracts
will require 30 hours education and interventions a week, of which 25 hours must be
education.</p><p><strong>Table 3: Average number of hours of education or vocational
training delivered per young person per school week in each Secure Training Centre
in calendar year 2015</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Medway</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Oakhill</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Rainsbrook</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Average
hours accessed by young people</strong></p></td><td><p>24.9</p></td><td><p>24.8</p></td><td><p>24.9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p>(4) Data for YOI Parc and Medway, Oakhill and
Rainsbrook STCs is taken from YJMIS from the figures submitted by secure establishments.</p><p>(5)
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>
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