R & S bulletin 19/2014 youth reoffending in Northern Ireland

Breach of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics

It was formally established on 11 March 2015 that contrary to Protocol 2, Practice 7 of the Code a party not on the pre-release access list for the publication ‘Youth Reoffending in Northern Ireland (2011/12 Cohort)’ had been given access to it in the 24 hour period to publication by a recipient in the same business area properly in receipt of pre-release access. There was no evidence of onward transmission outside the immediate confines of the business area involved nor of further impact. On formal establishment that a breach had indeed occurred the matter was immediately reported to the Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and relevant procedures for web notification put in place.