First, there is the overall fate of the custodial estate for children. For seven years the government has repeated its 2017 view that prison-like young offender institutions (YOIs) and the sole remaining secure training centre (STC) should be phased out. No timetable has been attached to this and it has taken all of the intervening seven years to create the first of the planned replacements, the Oasis Restore secure school, which opens later this month. Originally, we were told that there would also be a secure school in the North of England but has not even reached planning stage. Meanwhile, the case for drastic improvements has only grown with ever increasing dire inspection reports about YOIs and at times the STC.
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