At the launch of her annual report, Anne Owers told Young People Now: "If you think about the training that we give to people who work with children in any other situation, and the amount of training and support we would expect them to get, we are asking prison staff to deal with the most damaged children on the basis of very little."
Colin Moses, chair of the Prison Officers' Association, backed her comments.
"The Prison Service abandoned mandatory training," he said. "The association opposed this and the Prison Service forced it through. We believe current levels of training are inadequate."
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