Ofsted, health watchdog the Care Quality Commission and HMI Prisons want to strengthen their response to STCs that receive an "inadequate" judgment. They also want to prioritise child protection within inspections.
The inspectorates said the changes are necessary due to concerns raised during previous inspections of England's three STCs around the way they manage behaviour and their ability to keep children and staff safe.
Currently, if an STC receives an "inadequate" judgment, the Ministry of Justice may commission additional visits between annual inspections. But the inspectorates said this rarely happens in practice.
Instead, they have proposed that STCs that receive their lowest rating are visited again within eight weeks, through either a monitoring visit or a full inspection, to ensure children are safe.
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