Fact File 2, Young adults today – Education, training and employment and young adults in the criminal justice system

10 March 2013

Fact File 2, Young adults today – Education, training and employment and young adults in the criminal justice system

Young adults

Open report

How can high quality opportunities support young people and programmes be tailored to specific needs? This report looks at participation in education, truancy and exclusion, and education and training in custody. It considers the influences of ethnicity, gender and socio-economic status and finds that improvements to education and training can help reduce reoffending.

Publisher: Young People in Focus

prison, young adults

Raise the Bars: Co-producing practice guidance with Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller people

This Friends, Families and Travellers report summarises focus groups with 57 Romany, Gypsy and Irish Traveller young adults across 20 prisons, with recommendations for reform based on their experiences.

Criminal Justice, young adults

Behind the decline

This Centre for Crime and Justice Studies report looks at the shrinking young adult population within the criminal justice system who are experiencing increasingly harsher treatment.

May 2026