In a letter to Rod Morgan, chair of the Youth Justice Board, the prison reform campaign group said the revised version of Prison Service Order 4950 would leave under-18s without a guaranteed period of time out of their cells.
Originally, the order said young people need to be out of their cells for 10 hours a day, but this requirement is absent in the still unpublished version.
The league's letter also criticised the removal of a measure requiring prisons to provide 15 hours of education to young people a week from the order.
Frances Crook, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the changes are concerning.
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