Youth Justice Indicators Counting Rules and Limitations June 2024 [pdf, 252 KB]
...within the period. Where an individual is proceeded against for more than one offence at the same time, and the offences occurred either side of a birthday, age is at the time of the earlier offence. Where an individual is proceeded against on two separate occasions, once for an offence committed at age 13, and once for an offence committed at age 14, within the same 12- month period, the individual will only be counted in the offending rate for children measure. Population data...