Rainsbrook contract ends ‘by mutual agreement’
The contract between the government and MTC to run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre has ended after a ‘mutual agreement’ was reached.
Children were removed from the privately run secure training centre in June after concerns were raised several times about the care provided to children and young people held there, including concerns from Ofsted over [...]
Inspectorates warn children at Rainsbrook were at risk of harm
Children held at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre were placed at risk of harm as a result of serious and widespread failings at the centre, a joint inspection by Ofsted, The Care Commission and HMI Prisons has found.
The joint report comes after the Lord Chancellor Lord Buckland announced last week that all children were [...]
MPs committee ‘shocked and appalled’ by treatment of children at Rainsbrook STC
The treatment of children at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre has left members of the House of Commons Justice Committee “shocked and appalled”.
The group of MPs has questioned why the Ministry of Justice has given MTC two more years to run the centre despite the poor performance by the company in managing the five-year, £50.4 million [...]
Prisoners should be made priority group for COVID vaccine
People in prison are at an increased risk of COVID-19 and should be made a vaccine priority, research by UCL has urged.
The research reveals that there were 121 deaths related to COVID-19 among people in prisons in England and Wales between March 2020 and February 2021, representing a risk of dying 3.3 times higher than [...]
Former children’s commissioner raises concerns over children in secure settings
Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield has raised alarm bells about the treatment of children and young people in secure settings.
Ms Longfield, who stepped down from her role this month, has written to Vicky Ford MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, Lucy Frazer QC MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice [...]
Campaign launched to reduce criminalisation of care experienced children
A new campaign to reduce the criminalisation of children in care and care leavers across England and Wales has been launched by NYAS.
Care-experienced children currently make up half of those placed in youth custody while children in care in England are six times more likely than other young people to be cautioned or convicted of [...]
