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<p>The National Probation Service (NPS) views maturity assessments as a critical component
of an offender assessment within a Pre-Sentence Report (PSR) as articulated in Probation
Instruction 04/2016: Determining PSR.</p><p>The NPS has produced maturity guidance
to support PSR writers which highlights how to identify low maturity, particularly
for young adults aged 18-25 years old. It also provides examples of how report writers
can communicate with courts about maturity, offending and sentencing proposals.</p><p>Between
July to September 2020, there were two cases of young adults aged 18 to 25 sentenced
to life imprisonment who received a pre-sentence report in England and Wales.</p><p>It
is not possible to give figures for the proportion of young adults aged 18 to 25 sentenced
to life imprisonment who received a pre-sentence report, as this would involve a process
of matching court record data with probation data and the cost of doing so would be
disproportionate.</p><p>Due to the disclosure risk regarding the identification of
certain attributes about a data subject that may not otherwise have been known, figures
cannot be provided on the number of cases where an assessment for neuro-disabilities
or maturity has been conducted.</p>
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