The Youth Justice Board’s Annual Workload Data 2010/11, shows there was a total of 176,511 proven offences by young people in 2010/11, down 11 per cent on 2009/10. Numbers of young people entering the youth justice system for the first time fell from 62,504 in 2009/10 to 45,519 in 2010/11 continuing the downward trend since 2006/07.
Meanwhile, the average number of young people in custody for 2010/11 was 2,222, a 17 per cent decrease on the 2009/10 figure of 2,670.
Penelope Gibbs, director of the Out of Trouble programme at the Prison Reform Trust, said "positive progress" has been made but added that the figures are "pre-riots".
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