Supporting vulnerable adolescents

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 12 Oct 2022 Closed: 1 Jun 2023 Parliament page
Adolescents exposed to dangers such as substance abuse, criminality, and exploitation, both inside and outside the family, are at greater risk of adverse outcomes including severe mental health difficulties, homelessness, physical or mental harm, periods of not being in education, employment or training, and contact with the criminal justice system. … Read more
14 Recommendations
12 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
3 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 7 events
30 May
2023
Report published
22 Feb
2023
Report published
16 Jan
2023
Correspondence
12 Dec
2022
Correspondence
12 Dec
2022
Correspondence
21 Nov
2022
Oral evidence
21 Nov
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
21 Nov 2022
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Supporting vulnerable adolescents
Ed Cornmell · Ministry of Justice Rebecca Wyse · Home Office Siobhan Jones · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) Susan Acland-Hood · The Department for Education
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Thirty-Seventh Report - Support for vulnerable adolescents HC 730 22 Feb 2023 26 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
4 results
Clear
6 Recommendation Not Addressed
Thirty-Seventh Report - Support fo…
The Ministry of Justice and Home Office seem to lack curiosity about the increase in...
The Ministry of Justice and Home Office seem to lack curiosity about the increase in the proportion of children from ethnic minority background in youth custody and appear to have no current plan to address the situation. While the number … Read more
Government Response
The response discusses driving license backlogs, which is not relevant to the recommendation about ethnic minority children in youth custody.
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7 Recommendation Not Addressed
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Data sharing exercises need to be better used to understand the support vulnerable adolescents need.
Data sharing exercises need to be better used to understand the support vulnerable adolescents need. The poor outcomes experienced by vulnerable adolescents are often overlapping. For example, 72% of children sentenced in 2019–20 were assessed as having mental health concerns. … Read more
Government Response
The response discusses cancer waiting times and NHS funding, which is not relevant to the recommendation about data sharing to support vulnerable adolescents.
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1 Conclusion Not Addressed
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On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, in November 2022...
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, in November 2022 we took evidence from the Department for Education, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice about … Read more
Government Response
The government restates when the committee took evidence and published its report.
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14 Conclusion
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At 31 March 2021, there were 53,790 adolescents in care between the ages of 9...
At 31 March 2021, there were 53,790 adolescents in care between the ages of 9 and 17, making up 67% of the total care population. Between 31 March 2014 and 31 March 2021 the number of 9- to 17-year-olds in … Read more
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Government Response AI assessment · 25 of 14 classified
Accepted 13
Acknowledged 4
Not Addressed 3
Rejected 5
Total 14 recs + 12 conclusions
Correspondence 3 letters
16 Jan 2023 Correspondence from Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education, re Correction to Q62, HC730 on supporting vulnerable adolescents, 21 November 2022, dated 22 December 2022
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12 Dec 2022 Correspondence from Siobhan Jones, Director, Local Government Policy Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, re Supporting Vulnerable Adolescents update, dated 6 December 2022
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12 Dec 2022 Correspondence from Ed Cornmell, Youth Custody Service Executive Director, HM Prison & Probation Services, re Addressing Regional Variation in First Time Entrants to the Youth Justice System, dated 7 December 2022
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