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Noble Lords might say that this is all anecdotal, but the Youth Justice Board’s stats show that, in the year ending December 2023, of the children cautioned or sentenced who had a criminal history of 15 or more previous cautions or sentences, 44 were sentenced to immediate custody, compared with just 1% of those with no previous criminal history. For the aggregated cohort in the year ending March 2023, children had a higher reoffending rate—32.5%—than adults, who had only 26%. Children had a higher number of reoffences than adults in the year ending March 2023 for the second consecutive year.