A further 15 per cent of children in custody are held more than 100 miles from home due to the small number of secure settings now in use, writes Angus Jones, the inspectorate’s team leader for children and young people, in a blog to mark International Day of Families (15 May).
“This means their families, who are often on low incomes or have other children to look after, find it difficult to visit,” the blog states.
It adds that issues identified by the inspectorate during its investigation into the impact of distance from home on children in custody in 2016 have been “exacerbated” since the Covid-19 pandemic.
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