The data, published by the Office for National Statistics, shows that 52 per cent of care-experienced young people were handed a criminal conviction by age 24, compared with 13 per cent of their non care experienced peers of the same age.
One in seven care experienced children, whose data was examined for the research, received an immediate custodial sentence by the time they were 24, compared with one per cent of young people with no experience of care of the same age.
The figures also show that around 30 per cent of young people with experience of care received an immediate custodial sentence by the time they were 16. The proportion among their non-care experienced peers of the same age was nine per cent.
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