Home Department written question – answered at on 17 November 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many hours, on average, young offenders spend in education each week.
Young offenders spend an average of 24 hours a week in education. These figures do not include additional independent learning, for example, through peer support schemes or distance learning.
The Youth Justice Board's national target is to provide young people in young offender institutions, with 25 hours a week of education, training and personal development by 2005, rising to 30 hours a week by 2006.
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