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<p> </p><p> </p><p>The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is responsible for placing young
people remanded or sentenced to custody in accordance with individual needs. The YJB
recently announced that, reflecting the continued falls in the number of young people
in custody, from April 2014 it would be reducing the number of beds it purchases in
the Secure Children's Home sector.</p><p>As the YJB is not invoiced for escorts to
Secure Children's Homes on a regional basis, the YJB does not hold data on the costs
of escorts for young people from London and the South East being transported to Secure
Children's Homes in other regions. Invoice information also does not separate out
the costs of escorts to Secure Children's Homes and Secure Training Centres which
are delivered under the same contract. Although the YJB does hold data on where young
people have been collected from, and transported to, this information is not routinely
collated and to calculate the cost of individual journeys to Secure Children's Homes
could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p>
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