CYP Now - Corporate providers must be held to account

The moving of children from Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre should be a stark warning that we have systematically failed to protect the most vulnerable from abuse, failed to hold those in authority to account and failed to mend a broken system.

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Since autumn 2020, ministers were made aware of significant concerns regarding the care and safety of children and assured the public that they were working with the contractor MTC to ensure improvements were made while providing “increased oversight by the Youth Custody Service” as an action plan was implemented.

The Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland QC stated in January: “What happened at Rainsbrook was simply unacceptable; it is MTC’s duty to ensure all the young people at the centre are properly cared for and they have failed to do that. This action plan will drive MTC to make the vital, urgent improvements needed to turn things around and I am demanding they do that urgently.”

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