Crest Advisory – Nov 2019
Our major new report into the Youth Justice Service has found that the government has failed to capitalise on a dramatic 73 per cent fall in the number of children being given custodial sentences since 2009.
The Crest Advisory research – funded by the Hadley Trust – found that, despite this fall, conditions inside youth prisons are worse than they were a decade ago, with rising levels of assaults and self-harm. Meanwhile, reoffending rates are now higher for young offenders.
