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support via a high staff to detainee ratio. Figure 2 shows the proportions of young people across<br />

the different parts of the youth justice system in 2011-12 (YJB/MoJ 2013:7).<br />

Figure 2. Distribution of young people across the youth justice system in 2011-12 (YJB/MoJ 2013:7)<br />

Around 37,000 young people entered the Youth Justice System for Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Wales for the first<br />

time in 2011-12, accounting for 18% of first time entrants to the criminal justice system (i.e. adults<br />

accounted for 82%). This number reflects a year-on-year decline in new entrants to the youth<br />

justice system, from a peak in 2006-7 of around 111,000. However, a significant proportion of these<br />

(36%) re-offend within one year of caution or conviction (YJB/MoJ 2013). Of those young people<br />

who are convicted of an offence (11% of the total sentenced population), only 2% (1,678) received<br />

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