Peter Clarke, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, said that Feltham A YOI, which holds around 140 young people, mainly aged between 16 and 17, became significantly safer in the last year following a critical report in early 2017.
There had been an 80 per cent reduction in assaults on staff and assaults on boys were down by a third.
The report states that the improvements were, at least in part, due to the introduction of a new behaviour management philosophy, which at the time of the inspection in December 2017 and January 2018, was still being embedded.
"Last year we reported how the focus had been on sanctions and regime restrictions; there was a cycle of violence and punitive responses, with no obvious strategy in place to break it," Clarke said.
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