Secure estate Orchard Lodge Secure Children's Home is the first institution of its kind to be sold to the private sector.
Custody figures YJB figures show the under-18 custodial population increased in April, up to 2,819 from 2,785 in March.
Antisocial behaviour "Yob culture" is the most worrying "crime" for 23 per cent of people, says a Legal and General poll.
Knife crime 17,715 weapons were handed in during the first week of the Home Office amnesty.
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