The mental health needs of young people in custody have long been a cause for concern and in the last few weeks the issue has been making headlines again.
The inquest into the suicide of teenager Sarah Campbell at Styal prison, Cheshire, exposed serious shortcomings in the way the prison dealt with vulnerable young people. It heard that Campbell was involved in 27 separate instances of self-harm and that prison staff failed to properly log them.
There was also the news that Gareth Price, a 16-year-old inmate at Lancaster Farms young offenders' institution in Lancashire, had hanged himself in his cell.
Cause for concern
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