HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission and General Pharmaceutical Council inspectors found in December 2018 that assaults on staff and children at Cookham Wood YOI had increased and a quarter of children spent the day locked in their cells.
The report said the institution, which cares for boys aged 15 to 18, was "insufficiently good in safety, purposeful activity and resettlement" and that only half the recommendations made since the previous inspection in 2017 had been achieved.
It also found high rates of incidents of force, compared to similar institutions, with two thirds of boys reporting that they had been physically restrained.
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