Recognise failure for successful secure schools

Nathan Ward
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

This April would have been the 25th anniversary of the opening of Medway Secure Training Centre (STC). Like most, if not all, secure establishments it had a rocky start but represented the beginning of a major reform in youth justice. As we await the birth of the new secure school on the site of the original STC it is worth reflecting on the past 25 years.

Nathan Ward is vicar of St Margaret’s Church, Rainham, and a former youth custody deputy director
Nathan Ward is vicar of St Margaret’s Church, Rainham, and a former youth custody deputy director

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