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<p /> <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
people have ended up in custody. To deliver the best value for money for taxpayers
we have reduced the number of youth justice places.</p><p> </p><p>Young people are
placed in establishments that can most effectively manage their individual needs.
Factors such as age, suitability of regime, risk of self-harm or to others, all have
to be taken into account.</p><p> </p><p>Disclosure of specific information about individual
offenders may lead to the identification of those offenders and a potential breach
of the Data Protection Act. . The table below therefore sets out, in banded categories,
the distances from home for young people placed in secure establishments following
their transferral from Hassockfield Secure Training Centre;</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Table
A: Table showing the banded distance from home (in miles) of the young people after
the decommissioning of Hassockfield Secure Training Centre.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Miles
(banded)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of young people who were placed closer
to home</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of young people who were placed further
from home</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-50</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>51-100</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>101-150</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>151+</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>
</strong></p><p>“Home” is defined as a young person's address at the time of placement.</p><p>This
data is operational and uses a calculation of distance travelled by road rather than
distance as the crow flies.</p><p> </p><p>This information comes from the eAsset database,
the booking system used by the YJB to place young people into custody.</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>
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