
Information provided to children's rights charity Article 39 by the six local authorities with youth custody establishments in their areas revealed there had been a total of 557 allegations of abuse and neglect between 2016 and 2019.
Only three of the local authorities provided information showing how many abuse and neglect allegations referred to them were substantiated - where local authorities have sufficient evidence to prove what was alleged - with 66 (43 per cent) of 155 abuse or neglect allegations across the three councils deemed to be substantiated.
Oakhill STC, run by G4S in Milton Keynes, had the highest number of abuse and neglect findings with more than half (52) of the 98 allegations found to be substantiated.
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