The government is looking to launch two secure schools instead of incarcerating young offenders in Youth Offenders Institutions (YOI) and Secure Training Centres (STC).
The first secure school, on the site of the Medway STC in Kent, was due to open later this year. But this has been delayed until December 2022.
Members of the Justice Committee said they welcomed the government’s focus on secure schools “but the repeated delay in setting up even the first school, planned for Medway, is of significant concern”.
MPs concerns have been revealed in its latest report into the youth secure estate for England and Wales.
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