• Prevention KPI : Reduce First Time Entrants to the YJ
System by March 2008 by 5% against an 05/06 baseline.
• £45m Funding via YJB Prevention grants to YOTs
• Menu of evidence-based interventions rolled out across
England and Wales
• In England, many Local Area Agreements (LAAs) have reducing FTEs as a Target and a substantial number have adopted a Stretched Target (attracting a reward if achieved)
• In Wales, the FTE target has been included as an outcome measure for the single Children and Young
People’s Plans and as an objective of the All Wales
Youth Offending Strategy

• Performance on this KPI is giving cause for concern – currently a high proportion of the 156 YOTs in England and Wales are not achieving this target .
• In the Prevention QA process in Feb/March 07 a significant number of YOTs with high-performing
Prevention services were found to be below target.
• YOTs own analyses and reporting of issues suggests that Police policies of arresting young people may have changed in response to their Offences Brought To
Justice Target (OBTJ)
• YOTs are trying to influence local Policing (with some success in terms of referrals to YISPs) but are unable to influence National Policy.

• A young person is considered to have entered the Youth
Justice System when they receive a ‘substantive outcome’- effectively a Police Reprimand, Final Warning,
Referral Order etc
• A young person is not recorded as an FTE when in receipt of a Penalty notice for Disorder (PND) , NFA decision or an ASBO.

• Whether YOT FTE trend is going upwards or downwards
• Whether YOT is on target to achieve a 5% reduction in
FTEs by March 08
• Any trends in age , gender , ethnicity which might inform changes of targeting policy
• Any changes in the types of offence (seriousness) which are bringing young people into the Youth Justice System.
• Whether gravity scores for FTEs are remaining constant

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FTE by Quarter 2005 - 2007
Reprimand
Final Warning - FTE
Referral Order- FTE
Overall FTEs
Target
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec Jan-Mar Apr-Jun
0
Jul-Sep Oct-Dec Jan-Mar
0 0 0

• When a young person is convicted of an offence , a
‘gravity score’ or indicator of seriousness , is recorded by the YOT MI database.
• By tracking the progression of First Time Entrant Gravity scores a measure of whether less serious offences are leading to substantive outcomes can be gained.
• Work already done by individual YOTs has shown that , in their areas , gravity scores for FTEs are reducing.
• By gathering this data YOTs have a means of demonstrating this situation to relevant partners in order to affect change.

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0
0
Period 1
Period 2
1
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
2
0
0
FTE Gravity Scores
3
0
0
4
0
0
5
0
0
6
0
0
7
0
0

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Final Warning Breakdown
Final Warning - FTE;
Final Warning - With
Previous Disposal;
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Referral Order Breakdown
Referral Order- FTE;
Referral Order - With
Previous Disposal;

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FTE Age: Female
0
Period 1
Period 2
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
10
0
0
11
0
0
12
0
0
13
0
0
14
0
0
15
0
0
16
0
0
17
0
0

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FTE Age: Male
0
Period 1
Period 2
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
10
0
0
11
0
0
12
0
0
13
0
0
14
0
0
15
0
0
16
0
0
17
0
0

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FTE Gender: Period 1
Male; 0; 1%
Female; 0; 1%
Home
FTE Gender: Period 2
Male; 0; 1%
Female; 0; 1%

Home
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
Period 1
Period 2
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
FTE Offence Type
0
0
0
0
0
0

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1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
Period 1
Period 2
0
0
0
0
FTE Ethnicity
0
0
0
0
0
0
Other
0
0

Home
0
Period 1
Period 2
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
FTE Location
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0