The report is particularly critical of the way the board released figures on intensive supervision and surveillance programmes last year. David Green, Civitas director and the author of the report Crime and Civil Society, said: "The board has consistently exaggerated its achievements."
His comments come a week after Labour MP Hilton Dawson attacked the board in Parliament for using selective quotes as evidence of its success. In its report Strategy for the Secure Estate for Juveniles, the board only cited positive comments from the Children's Rights Alliance for England's study Rethinking Child Imprisonment. The board declined to comment.
www.civitas.org.uk.
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