Speaking in a personal capacity at Young People Nows Youth Justice Summit last week, Roy Walker said: If we are not careful another young person is going to end up dead because they are in the wrong place.
Walker, who is principal care manager at Sutton Place Safe Centre in Kingston upon Hull, was referring to the death of Joseph Scholes, who was 16 when he hung himself in Stoke Heath Young Offender Institution in 2002.
Walker said neither the Prison Service, private companies nor local authorities should be allowed to run secure accommodation for young people. He said accommodation could be run by a non-governmental organisation, but added: I havent necessarily got the answers, but we need to have a debate.
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