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  "The average of the monthly counts of children aged 10 to 17 in custody in the youth secure estate (secure children's homes, secure training centres and young offender institutions) in England and Wales, over each year from April to March, as the Youth Justice Board publishes it. Those aged 18 and over held in the youth estate are left out. Shown to the whole child; the published figures, with their decimals, are in the record's JSON.",
  "The Youth Justice Board for England and Wales publishes these as accredited official statistics."
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