questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment has he made of the causes of the increase in the number of young people aged 18 or over placed in the youth secure estate since 2022.
answerText: It has never been the policy automatically to transfer young people to the adult estate on reaching the age of 18. Some 18-year-olds have always been managed in the youth estate, when they were nearing the end of their sentence or it was deemed to be the ...
heading: Youth Custody