The thing about the 400 or so children in custody is not that they are “hard to reach” but that they are “easy to forget”. The Victorians used to write about prisons as “places of internal exile”, and this can still be true today.
In May, the chief inspector of prisons, former head teacher Charlie Taylor, issued an “urgent notification” (UN) to improve Cookham Wood prison. This is very much a measure of last resort for the Prisons Inspectorate. Taylor has served five UNs on the government in four years about children's prisons. That is four out of a total of six English institutions.
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