by diviadmin | Feb 5, 2017 | Reports, Youth Justice
This week the Youth Justice Board published it’s annual stats report. There’s good news again – fewer kids in prison, and fewer in the system generally. But we still have a re-offending rate of 37.9% – pretty much the same as last year (and...
by diviadmin | Jan 30, 2016 | Policy, Practice
In my view, agency (& government) obsession with data-gathering has gone too far. The method is wrong, the emphasis is wrong, the outcomes are wrong. So what’s to be done? How numbers are replacing people… I’m a believer that stats can help. They...
by diviadmin | Jan 24, 2013 | Reports, Youth Justice
Crime statistics for 2012 from the Office of National Statistics – here © Jonny Matthew 2013