Figures published by the Ministry of Justice show that the proportion of BAME staff within the youth custody service has risen from 12.9 per cent at the end of March 2016 to 15.9 per cent at the end of June this year.
Following the Lammy review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, BAME individuals in the criminal justice system published in September 2017, the prison service made a commitment that 14 per cent of all new recruits would come from BAME backgrounds by December 2020.
Although progress has been made in relation to diversity within recruitment, Lammy has raised concerns that many of his 35 recommendations to improve the system have been "ignored".
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