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Kirklees YOT – National Indicator performance
April 2008 – March 2009

These National Indicators (NI’s) are some of a large number of indicators set by Central Government which apply to Local Authorities throughout the country. The six below apply to every YOT in England and Wales. Targets for the indicators are set for each YOT by the Youth Justice Board (YJB).

NI 19 – Rate of re-offending by young people
This is measured by tracking forward for one year from April 08 to March 09 all those young people who offended between Jan 08 and March 08. This gives you a total number of offences committed by this group in the 12 months from April 08. This is divided by the number of young people in the group to give you a figure of offences per young person in the group.

For the period April 08 to March 09 Kirklees YOT had a target of 1.32. We actually achieved a result of 1.06 which was much better than our target and better than the average for other YOT’s in the region.

NI 43 – Young People receiving a conviction who are sentenced to custody
This target is the number of young people sentenced to custody between April 08 and March 09 in Kirklees as a percentage of all young people sentenced in the same period. Kirklees YOT had a figure of 7.5% which was exactly on the target set by the YJB but slightly worse than other YOT’s in the region.


NI 44 – Ethnic composition of offenders on Youth Justice Disposals
This is a complicated target which is measured by compare the percentage of the different ethnic groups in the Kirklees10-17 year old population with their percentage in the offending group. The target is to reduce the proportion of the group that was most over-represented, for Kirklees this is the Black African/ Afro-Caribbean group. Our target for 08-09 set by the YJB was 4.64%, our performance for 08-09 was 3.70% which was better than our target and is in line with regional YOT’s.


NI 45 –Young Offenders engaged in education employment or training
This is the percentage of young people at the end of their involvement with the YOT who are in full-time education, employment or training. For Kirklees the target for 08/09 was 67% which we achieved with 67.1% being in full-time education, employment or training. This is in line with other YOT’s in the region.

NI 46 – Young Offenders access to suitable accommodation
This is the percentage of young people at the end of their involvement with the YOT who are in suitable accommodation (living with parent / carer, in their own flat/bedsit etc). For Kirklees the target for 08/09 was 95% which we achieved with 95.4% which is in line with other YOT’s in the region.


NI 111 – First time entrants to the Youth Justice System
This measures those young people who are convicted of an offence for the first time. To allow comparison with other YOT’s it is expressed as a number per 100,000 of the 10-17 year old population ( the actual 10-17 population in Kirklees is just over 42,000). For Kirklees in 08/09 the target was 1686 per 100,000 the actual result was 1188 per 100,000 which was well within target and better than the average for other YOT’s in the region.