Medway was intended to be the first of five STCs in the country and originally staffed with managers with significant experience working with children within residential care who led a team who on the whole cared about the children in their care. In essence it was a good concept that on paper should have worked – and, indeed, for many it did – but still systematically failed to protect some of the most vulnerable children in our society. The result of this failure was a dramatic reduction in the numbers of young people in STCs and eventually closure.
With the government announcing the new secure school, called Oasis Restore and run by the Oasis Charitable Trust, will be open by the end of 2022, what if anything can we learn from STCs?
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