The Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Made: 6th March 2025

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 2025

Coming into force: 1st April 2025

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 103(2)(a) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and extent

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 1st April 2025.

• (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.

Amendments to the Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) Regulations 2013

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Regulation 3 of the Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) Regulations 2013[^f00002] (liability for costs of a child being subject to a remand to youth detention accommodation) is amended as follows—

• (a) in paragraph (4)(k), after “2024” insert “(but before 1st April 2025)”;

• (b) after paragraph (4)(k), insert—

(l) on or after 1st April 2025, £353.

• (c) in paragraph (5)(p), after “2024” insert “(but before 1st April 2025)”;

• (d) after paragraph (5)(p), insert—

(q) on or after 1st April 2025, £941.

• (e) in paragraph (6)(m), after “2024” insert “(but before 1st April 2025)”;

• (f) after paragraph (6)(m), insert—

(n) on or after 1st April 2025, £968 (except where the secure children’s home is a secure 16 to 19 Academy[^f00003], where the applicable amount is £859).

Signed

Nicholas Dakin — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — Ministry of Justice — 6th March 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Explanatory Note

These Regulations amend the Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/507) by inserting a new amount that designated authorities are liable to pay the Secretary of State in respect of each night which a child is detained on remand in a young offender institution (increased from £329 to £353), a secure training centre (increased from £921 to £941), a secure children’s home (increased from £887 to £968), and where the secure children’s home is a secure 16 to 19 Academy, (increased from £772 to £859). A secure 16 to 19 Academy is a type of youth detention accommodation as defined in section 1B(7) of the Academies Act 2010 (c. 32) and is a type of secure children’s home under the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/541) for which a separate applicable amount applies.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2012 c. 10.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2013/507; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2013/2243, 2014/562, 2014/981, 2014/2931, 2015/569, 2016/330, 2017/230, 2017/1147, 2018/250, 2018/498, 2018/1126, 2019/508, 2020/241, 2021/287, 2022/274, 2023/310, 2024/327.

[^f00003]: “Secure 16 to 19 Academy” is defined in section 1B(7) of the Academies Act 2010 (c. 32); “secure children’s home” is defined in regulation 2(1) of the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/541) and includes a secure 16 to 19 Academy; S.I. 2015/541 was made under the powers conferred by section 14A of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) and sections 1(4A), 22(1), (1A), (2)(a) to (d), (f) to (j), (5), (7)(a) to (h), (j), 34(1), 35(1) and 118(5) to (7) of the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14).