Having remained stubbornly high in recent years, tackling the reoffending rate among juveniles has been identified as a top priority by the Youth Justice Board (YJB).
Latest Ministry of Justice figures show that of the 75,504 under-18s released from custody or convicted of a crime in England and Wales between April 2011 and March 2012, a total of 25,009 went on to reoffend within 12 months.
The resultant reoffending rate of 35.5 per cent - although marginally lower than it was for the period between January and December 2011 - is still nearly two percentage points higher than it was in 2005, when it stood at 33.6 per cent.
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