The report from HM Inspectorate of Probation, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and Ofsted, based on a joint thematic inspection of work with children on remand, found that remanded children make up an increasing proportion of the child custodial population, but more could be safely managed in the community.
The number of total bail remands has fallen from 15,042 in 2018 to 8,331 in 2022, with only 1,000 children receiving community remands with intervention in 2022.
Representation of black and minority ethnic children on remand was also found to be significantly high, as 58 per cent of children remanded were from ethnic minority groups in March last year.
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