This report presents data on the number of young people released from a supervised youth justice sentence who then returned – that is, young people who received another supervised sentence after the end of their first, or index sentence. Supervised sentences include both community-based and detention sentences.

Of young people aged 10–17 who were under sentenced youth justice supervision at some time between 2000–01 and 2021–22, 41% returned to sentenced supervision before turning 18. Of young people aged 10–16 in 2020–21 and released from sentenced community-based supervision, 40% returned to sentenced supervision within 6 months, and 57% within 12 months. Of those released from sentenced detention, 66% returned within 6 months, and 85% within 12 months.