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Coronavirus daily update: Wednesday 15 July

Young people in the secure estate will now be able to receive visits as restrictions imposed at the start of the coronavirus lockdown are lifted.
Visits to young people in youth custody have now resumed, a minister has said
Visits to young people in youth custody have now resumed, a minister has said

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Visits to resume in youth secure estate

Face-to-face visits are resuming this week in youth prisons in England and Wales, a justice minister has told MPs.

Lucy Frazer told the justice committee face-to-face meetings had started at Wetherby YOI and would be restarted across the public YOIs “in the next seven days”.

Prisons and youth offender institutions (YOIs) have been under a heavily restrictive regime since mid-March to halt the spread of Covid-19.

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