11th Special Report - Children and Young People in Custody (Part 2): The Youth Secure Estate and Resettlement: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixteenth Report of Session 2019–21

This is the government's response, published 19 April 2021.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government's response sets out progress and planned work across separation, self-harm, use of force, race disparity, secure schools and resettlement, with several stated timescales, and says it agrees that more needs to be done to improve transparency on separation data.

• On separation, it expects to begin publishing separation data on a quarterly basis in the 2022/23 financial year, and "expect the policy to be published by August with implementation following immediately after".
• On pain-inducing techniques, it says it "aim[s] to remove this technique by the summer", accompanied by a suite of training for staff.
• On the first secure school, it says it "continue[s] to work towards an opening date at the end of 2022" and will keep the Committee updated; its long-term ambition is to replace all YOIs and STCs with secure schools, an "ambition that will take some time to be realised".
• On staff turnover, it is reviewing turnover in public sites, with a provisional reporting date of 30 June 2021. On transitions to adult custody, it aims to publish a policy framework "later this year".

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