Ethnicity monitoring in the youth justice system

09 May 2016

According to HM Inspectorate for Prisons (HMIP) both Secure Training Centres and Youth Offender Institutions (YOI) continue to hold a hugely disproportionate number of Gypsy, Traveller and Roma (GTR) children. However, the youth criminal justice system still does not record Gypsies and Travellers, despite HMIP stating that this is needed in order to address their needs relating to safety, behaviour, education and resettlement.