HM Inspector of Prisons, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission carried out an unannounced monitoring visit at the site in Warwickshire after a previous inspection in October revealed children as young as 15 were being kept in cells for 23.5 hours per day for the first two weeks after arrival at the facility.
This practice had continued “despite assurances that this would be stopped, after the practice was highlighted by an assurance visit carried out on 26 to 29 October 2020”, the report states.
“Small bubble arrangements had been devised meaning that children could spend a minimum of 4.5 hours each day out of their bedrooms, and a further two 30-minute periods of fresh air. When inspectors spoke with children, they said that on admission to the centre they were being locked in their bedrooms for 23.5 hours each day,” it adds.
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