The Youth Justice Board (YJB) is to open the Keppel Unit at Wetherby Young Offender Institution (YOI) in West Yorkshire on 6 October.
The 48-bed unit will offer better targeted education and training, as well as dedicated health care to 15- to 17-year-old young men. The facility is for young men who struggle to engage with standard regimes in YOIs. They can be referred there from other institutions or direct from court.
A spokesman for the YJB said the young people in the unit would receive better one-to-one attention than is possible in other YOIs. He said there would be more services designed to better meet the needs of the young people and to understand their behaviour, such as education and training and help with mental health issues.
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