Youth Justice – how we're doing
These tables show the trends in our youth justice data over the past two years.
The graphs below show how we are performing across several measures.
Note: COVID-19 may have impacted the June, September and December 2020 quarters. This is due to the alert level restrictions first implemented at the end of March 2020.

Support following offending

Of rangatahi or young people with a past Youth Justice referral 75% had no contact with us this quarter. The proportion of rangatahi or young people who have only been in contact with Oranga Tamariki Youth Justice once has been increasing over the past two years (as shown in the blue bars).
Re-offending

The number of FGCs this quarter increased by 10% in comparison to the September 21 quarter. For most rangatahi or young people (43%) this quarter this was their first Youth Justice FGC.

Less restrictive placements

The total number of custodial placements is has declined slightly this quarter in comparison to the previous quarter. Community-Base placements continued to increase and now make up 30% of all custodial placements.
Note: Work is underway to query the Police Custody figure as it does not align with other data sources.
Shorter placements

Supervision with residence placements remain the longest at 103 days but decreased from 108 in the September 21 quarter. The length of these placements is strongly influenced by the sentence length given by the court. Policy Custody also decreased from 1.1 days to 1.0 days. Both Residence on Remand and Community-Based placements increased slightly in their average days.

Initial case decision

Shares of each outcome type have fluctuated slightly over time. For the vast majority of cases, young people are released on bail after their first court appearance. On average, 370 cases are closed each quarter.
Escalation of bail

The share of final status after being bailed has fluctuated over time but has not shown a clear trend in any direction. The majority (71%) of all young people released on bail stay on bail.
Published: June 14, 2022