A Freedom of Information to the Youth Justice Board (YJB) request by CYP Now last month revealed there were 112 "safeguarding incidents" among 10- to 17-year-olds under youth offending team supervision in 2009. These consisted of 93 deaths, suicides or attempted suicides and 19 incidents when young offenders were victims of serious offences such as murder, attempted murder or rape.
However, an unpublished YJB annual report on community serious incidents, leaked to CYP Now, puts this figure far higher, at 176.
The report, dated June 2010, also states there were 132 public protection cases where a young person under YOT supervision committed a serious offence, 34 higher than figures provided to CYP Now.
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