Unpublished Youth Justice Board (YJB) figures obtained by CYP Now reveal that around one in every 200 children in Lambeth, Manchester and Southwark end up in custody each year.
In sharp contrast, just one in 5,000 children in Dorset or Surrey experience the same fate. In total across England and Wales, 6,719 children were sentenced to custody out of 109,062 convictions between April 2008 and March 2009. This works out as a custody rate of 6.2 per cent, an increase on the 2007/08 rate of 5.7 per cent.
The figures have been sent to individual local authorities by the YJB in a bid to highlight custody levels but are yet to be published.
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