These services are currently commissioned by individual institutions through the Youth Justice Board, but the latest proposals mean that secure children’s homes and secure training centres will start to commission health services in the same way as young offender institutions.
Responsibility for commissioning health services for young offender institutions and prisons passed from the prison service to the NHS in 2006.
Professor Louis Appleby, the national clinical director for health and criminal justice, said: "By ensuring these vulnerable young people are receiving health services delivered through the NHS, we can guarantee a consistently high level of quality across the entire secure estate for young people in England.
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