Last month inspectors called for urgent action to be taken to stop the unacceptable treatment of vulnerable children in a “bleak regime” at Rainsbrook STC, near Rugby, Warwickshire.
Concerns were raised that, due to Covid-19 restrictions, newly admitted children – some as young as 15 – were being locked in cells for 14 days for as long as 23.5 hours per day.
Ofsted, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, and Care Quality Commission took the rare step of issuing an urgent notification (UN) to the Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland, giving him 28 days to set out how the concerns will be addressed.
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