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 are for January to March 2005, show the rate has only dropped to 40.8 per cent.
The Ministry of Justice noted that although there has been little progress against the target, reoffending has fallen overall.
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