The school, planned to be run by the Oasis Charitable Trust on the site of the former Medway Secure Training Centre, is now set to open in 2022, Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland has confirmed in the government's new white paper A Smarter Approach to Sentencing.
The paper, which proposes reforms to aspects of youth sentencing including detention and training orders, response to serious crimes and addressing disproportionality across the youth custody service, states: “We are proposing legislative change to clarify that operating a secure school could be a charitable activity.”
“In secure schools we want to engage visionary, not-for-profit, child-focused providers and trust them to deliver the best outcomes for children including on reoffending, education and health. A high proportion of the organisations that are not-for-profit and meet the criteria we are looking for in secure school providers are charities,” it adds.
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