The Youth Justice Board's annual convention last week took an interesting twist after furious magistrates refuted suggestions that they were to blame for the high number of young people in custody.
Joyce Moseley, chief executive of Catch22, sparked controversy when she suggested that magistrates were likely to send young offenders to custody in the belief that it would improve their chances of receiving a good education.
The issue is becoming more and more important because of the high number of first time entrants to the youth justice system (see graph), with concerns that magistrates are not making sufficient use of community alternatives to custody.
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