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<p>The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is planning to stipulate the future collection of
ethnicity data based on the ‘18+1’ ethnicity categories used in the 2011 Census (which
includes ‘Gypsy or Irish Traveller’ as a separate category) as part of its Annual
Data Recording Guidance. This guidance will be issued to Local Authority Youth Offending
Teams (YOTs) by the start of the new reporting year in April 2017. Once this guidance
is issued, YOTs, the YJB and the secure estate will need to make changes to their
various IT systems. This requires updating over 150 systems and the technical standards
between them.</p><p> </p><p>The YJB estimate that the changes will be implemented
by spring 2018. These changes will enable YOTs to report using 18+1 data on all young
people receiving a new order, whether or not they were previously known to the YOT.</p><p>
</p><p>We will consider dependencies with existing IT systems, both within the youth
justice system and with other local IT systems, and identify the feasibility and indicative
costs as part of this process.</p>
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