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Criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2018-2019

A national statistics publication for Scotland.

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	2015-16		2016-17		2017-18		2018-19
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
Total	508	*100.0*	894	*100.0*	1,027	*100.0*	634	*100.0*
Age group¹
16-17	27	5.3	47	5.3	49	4.8	36	5.7
18-20	107	21.1	230	25.7	268	26.1	158	24.9
21-25	132	26.0	248	27.7	276	26.9	163	25.7
26-30	83	16.3	147	16.4	168	16.4	98	15.5
31-40	99	19.5	128	14.3	144	14.0	91	14.4
Over 40	60	11.8	94	10.5	122	11.9	88	13.9
Gender
Male	409	80.5	762	85.2	854	83.2	520	82.0
Female	99	19.5	132	14.8	173	16.8	114	18.0
Employment status
Full-time education	29	5.7	64	7.2	65	6.3	39	6.2
Employed/self employed	219	43.1	414	46.3	541	52.7	332	52.4
Unemployed	146	28.7	259	29.0	266	25.9	165	26.0
Government training scheme	3	0.6	2	*	2	*	1	*
Economically inactive²	24	4.7	23	2.6	21	2.0	26	4.1
Other	87	17.1	132	14.8	132	12.9	71	11.2
Ethnicity³
White	375	96.9	717	97.4	890	97.2	562	97.9
Asian	6	1.6	10	1.4	11	1.2	5	0.9
African, Caribbean or Black	3	0.8	1	*	3	*	4	0.7
Mixed	0	-	1	*	5	0.5	2	*
Other	3	0.8	7	1.0	7	0.8	1	*
Not known/provided	121		158		111		60
Length of order
Over 10 and under 20 hours	0	-	1	*	1	*	0	-
20 hours	93	18.3	66	7.4	43	4.2	49	7.7
Over 20 and under 30 hours	3	0.6	0	-	0	-	0	-
30 hours	267	52.6	403	45.1	547	53.3	278	43.8
40 hours	99	19.5	319	35.7	265	25.8	191	30.1
Over 40 and under 50 hours	0	-	0	-	1	*	0	-
50 hours	46	9.1	105	11.7	170	16.6	116	18.3

Notes:

Fiscal work orders were introduced nationally on 1 April 2015, having been piloted in a small number of local authority areas since June 2008.

1. Age is at commencement of order.

2. Includes those who are retired, supported by family, caring for home/family or long-term sick/disabled.

3. The percentages for ethnicity represent the proportions of cases where the ethnicity was known.

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