Speaking at a Westminster Legal Policy Forum event in London, Paul Candler, deputy director for youth justice at the Ministry of Justice, conceded that the government is yet to consider the potential negative implications of such a move.
Asked by Jo Phoenix, a criminologist at the University of Leicester, whether ministers had reflected on the “downsides” of boys and girls being held at the secure college due to open in 2017 at Glen Parva, in the East Midlands, Candler said: “They haven’t yet, because no decision has been made on whether girls will in fact be included in Glen Parva.
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