The joint inspection report, compiled by the Probation Inspectorate, the Prisons Inspectorate, the Care Quality Commission, the Welsh health inspectorate Estyn and Ofsted, points to the fact that the transfer between youth and adult offending services at 18 coincides with the peak age for reoffending.
Inspectors found that not all young people in the community who were eligible for transfer to adult-based services are being identified, meaning that transfers, once undertaken, were being done too late and with insufficient information.
Meanwhile young people in custody were not always as “informed or involved as they should have been”, with some saying that they felt unprepared for the reality of a move to an adult prison.
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