Young offenders: government plans to put education 'at heart of detention'

academies and free schools could be invited to take charge of education in institutions for young offenders

Aa> academies and free schools will be invited to take charge of education in young offender institutions (YOIs) as part of a radical plan to create "school safety training."

a Green Paper on the future of the young guard, the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, display, aims to "put education at the detention center" for young offenders in 1500 are currently YOIs, units of local government and private insurance, training centers in a safe environment in England and Wales.

The latest statistics show recidivism for 2011/12 73% of youth reoffended within one year after his release from prison, compared to 47% of adult offenders. Although YOIs promised to provide 15 hours per week for each offender, it is often not. Half of the 15 and 17 sent to institutions for young offenders are assessed as having literacy levels of children aged 7 to 11, with 88% of young male offenders who have been excluded from school.

Grayling, the newspaper said green juvenile detention was an opportunity to adopt a radically different approach. "Some costs for youth detention ? 200,000, five times the cost of sending a child to private school but the top of nearly three-quarters of young people leaving custody re-offend," said Attorney General.

"We can not do more of the same, pouring money into a broken system in the hope of a different result. It makes no sense for the taxpayer or youth must try on the right track. "

"I want to see new models, perhaps something like school safety training, providing education in detention detention rather than education as an afterthought. You want that young people receive the education and skills they need to turn away from crime forever. "
• The paper also discusses free schools and academies programs, and said that his experience in trying to turn around some of the worst performing schools in the country side is necessary in custody of minors. It is proposed to include in their knowledge by allowing new providers operating in the field.
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in custody of minors is currently contracted by a number of institutions as centers of learning. One of the main suppliers, Manchester College, has been criticized in recent years for the poor quality of their courses in at least two YOIs.

1372 was less than 18 years in juvenile detention in December in England and Wales and the other over 18 151 years. There are a lot of slack in the prisons of young people who have an occupancy rate of 63% and can only contain 2429 without overcrowding. Numbers of juvenile detention has been reduced from 500 last year and has halved in the last decade.

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cost homes for local children Attach ? 212,000 per year. A place in the costs of managing private training centers and insurance ? 178,000 a year in a young offenders' institution ? 178,000

Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform, welcomed Government's attention to the academic difficulties of children who enter the criminal justice system: "However," he said, "we n 've never send children to jail for education confusion. lies at the heart of these plans, at the risk of repeating the mistakes of history, training centers fail safe where the recidivism rate is very high and two children died.
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