A joint study by the Prisons Inspectorate and the Youth Justice Board (YJB) found that nearly a third (32 per cent) of young people in custody reported feeling unsafe at some time in 2011/12, compared to 27 per cent in 2010/11.
During the same period, the number of young people held in young offender institutions fell by 14 per cent.
The report said the five-percentage point jump could be a result of increases in the number of young people being restrained, or a rise in the use of adjudications – formal hearings to consider allegations of poor behaviour.
More than half (53 per cent) of the 926 young men and 25 young women questioned said it was their first time in custody.
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