The girls had been held at Rainsbrook secure training centre but following its closure they were moved to the all-boys Wetherby YOI in West Yorkshire in June last year.
An HM Inspectorate of Prisons report has detailed how some secure children’s homes had refused to accept girls with complex needs and a history of violence, which prompted the Youth Custody Service to “develop additional capacity at Wetherby” to accommodate them.
Inspectors said the YOI had “embraced this challenge and had worked hard to prove a more suitable environment for girls”. But they also criticised “the failure nationally to plan effectively for the small number of girls held in custody” which meant Wetherby had accommodated them “at short notice”.
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