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Recommendation 3
3
Accepted
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We recommend that the Ministry of Justice and Youth Justice Board work together to start...
Recommendation
We recommend that the Ministry of Justice and Youth Justice Board work together to start collecting data centrally on non-statutory, informal diversion schemes, including (but not limited to) data on how many complete a diversion scheme, the impact on reoffending, health outcomes and education outcomes.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government agrees more data collection is needed and states the YJB has been collecting data on Community Resolutions and other informal outcomes with YOT intervention since April 2020. They will explore publishing this data once a full year of quality data has been collated, though they note limitations in the data's scope.
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37
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted
9. We agree that more can be done to collect data on diversion schemes, and work is already underway to do so. Since April 2020, the YJB has been collecting data on Community Resolutions and other informal outcomes with YOT intervention. This will add to our understanding of Community Resolutions and informal diversion schemes, however the data will be limited in its ability to capture all elements of these disposals, to measure reoffending and to track all types of outcomes. 10. Where this data is being collected, the age, sex and ethnicity of the child are also captured. The YJB will explore publishing this data when it has collated a full year of sufficient quality data.
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