During a scrutiny visit at Wetherby and Keppel YOI in January, HM Inspectorate of Prisons found that the impact of coronavirus restrictions “on children’s time out of cell and access to education remained poor”.
Inspectors noted that face-to-face education had only resumed in the few weeks preceding the visit which began on 19 January.
“For much of the preceding nine months, most education had been delivered through in-cell packs and time out of cell was very limited," the report states. "Only about 30 per cent of children said they spent more than two hours out of their cell each day and very few said they found the in-cell education packs helpful.”
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