Black children in England and Wales are more likely to be stopped and searched, arrested, held on remand, sentenced to custody and to go on to commit another offence within a year, latest statistics, published by the YJB and Ministry of Justice reveal.
Black children account for 29 per cent of the youth custody population, an increase of 18 per cent compared with a decade ago, the report shows.
Despite black children making up just four per cent of the 10- to 17-year-old population in England and Wales, they were involved in 18 per cent of stop and searches carried out on the age group in the year ending March 2021 and 15 per cent of arrests.
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