Young Offender Institutions
(asked on 12th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the number of times that Rule 49 (segregation) was used in each young offender institution in England and Wales in each of the last 12 months.
The latest collated information (from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023) on the number of times children and young people have been separated in young offender institutions in the youth secure estate can be found at table 5.3 in the link below:
Segregation is not used within the wider youth secure estate. Children and young people are only temporarily separated from their peers as a very last resort. When this happens, they receive extra support from specially trained staff. Training is being escalated for every frontline officer, backed by £5 million of funding to improve care and support. Children and young people are never separated as a punishment.