To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-26397 by Cathy Jamieson on 12 June 2002 that data regarding review hearings of a change from a recommendation from a children’s panel that a child be sent to secure accommodation is not held by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA), on what data the Secure Accommodation Advisory Group concluded that there is a lack of evidence to support an increase in places.

The report draws from a variety of data sources including SCRA, prison records and a survey of young people in secure accommodation carried out in 1998.