Education is now to be at the heart of detention. This is the mantra of the Ministry of Justice Transforming Youth Custody green paper, outlining new ideas to improve outcomes for young people in prison. As the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling acknowledges, some youth custody places can cost five times the fees of top private schools, with educational outcomes that are hardly comparable. The logic is simple. With nearly three quarters of young people who leave custody reoffending, education provides a way out to bring greater opportunity and, hopefully, work. So the government wants to see some new models, along the lines of secure colleges where education is not simply an add-on, but core to the purposes of the establishments themselves.
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