Of the cohort of young offenders who left custody in 2009, 71.9 per cent went on to reoffend down from 74.3 per cent the previous year. The figure also marks a five per cent drop from nearly decade ago in 2000.
But the total number of offences committed remained the same as 2008, with 342.5 offences per 100 offenders.
Penelope Gibbs, director of the Out of Trouble programme at the Prison Reform Trust to reduce child and youth imprisonment, said: "It is welcome that the proportion of children and teenagers who re-offend, including those released from prison, is continuing to go down.
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