Last week, peers backed an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that would include local authorities in the tendering process to run secure academies.
Article 39 and the National Association of Youth Justice (NAYJ) said the move would ensure vulnerable children being looked after in these settings - formerly known as secure schools - would receive the specialist care they needed.
The charities had warned peers that excluding local authorities from running this new type of secure children’s home risked repeating “mistakes of the past”, which saw private providers contracted to operate secure training centres despite no previous experience of caring for vulnerable children.
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