The lists are regularly used in youth custody to prevent children in conflict from mixing.
But “while these seem expedient in the short-term” they are failing to tackle violence in YOIs and preventing more productive conflict resolution techniques from being used, according to HM Inspectorate of Prisons.
Its annual report warns that to tackle violence YOIs have “reverted to extensive and complicated” lists to keep children apart.
“Prisons that adopt this policy usually remain the most violent, and regimes inevitably are reduced because different groups have to be locked away before others can be let out,” warns its report.
“The boredom leads to children calling out to each other through windows or cell doors and creating further hostility.
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