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Joint MoJ/DfE policy for children in custody

IICSA · Sexual Abuse of Children in Custodial Institutions: 2009-2017 Investigation Report · Issued 28 February 2019 · Addressed to: Ministry of Justice

Government responseNo response yet

DeliveryNo statement from Ministry of Justice found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation, D

The Chair and Panel recommend that the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Education share policy responsibility for managing and safeguarding children in custodial institutions. This is to ensure that standards applied in relation to children in custody are jointly focussed on discipline and securing child welfare.

IICSA, Sexual Abuse of Children in Custodial Institutions: 2009-2017 Investigation Report · 28 Feb 2019 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

The recommendation asks the Ministry of Justice to share policy responsibility for children in custody. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, summarising a response of July 2019 on a web page archived in October 2022, reported that the department accepted the principle behind the recommendation (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022). According to the Inquiry, the department stated its ambition was to replace all Youth Offender Institutions and Secure Training Centres with secure schools and Secure Children’s Homes, for which the Department for Education has policy responsibility, while interim work was being conducted to ensure a child-focused ethos (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022).

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 5 Oct 2026.

Government response

●No formal government response recorded

The Index has not yet recorded a verbatim government response to this recommendation.

Delivery

No statement on delivery from Ministry of Justice has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

What other bodies have found

In their own words. These do not change the delivery statement above.

●Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse · 20 Oct 2022

On 23 July 2019, the Ministry of Justice accepted the principle behind this recommendation. It stated its ambition was to replace all Youth Offender Institutions and Secure Training Centres with secure schools and Secure Children’s Homes, which the Department for Education has policy responsibility for. In the interim, work was being conducted to ensure a child-focused ethos.

From: Recommendations - Children in Custodial Institutions: 2009-2017 investigation report

Site note: These are the Inquiry's own words, from its recommendations page for the Sexual Abuse of Children in Custodial Institutions investigation report, captured by the Internet Archive on 20 October 2022. They are the Inquiry's account of what the body told it, not the body's own words.

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