The first Autumn Performance Report from the Ministry of Justice records “slippage” on its public service agreement target to reduce youth reoffending. The department’s target, which it inherited from the Home Office, is to cut the number of young people who reoffend within a year of release. The aim is to cut the number of young people who reoffend by five per cent from the January to March 2000 baseline of 43.3 per cent. But the latest figures, which...