Chief inspector says levels of hostility and self-harm rising across young offender institutions
Prisons holding children are “significantly more violent” than jails holding adult men and most fail to deliver “one meaningful conversation with a child each week”, the chief inspector of prisons said.
Charlie Taylor said that despite the government spending £300,000 for every child in custody a year, levels of violence and self-harm are rising across the youth prison estate in England and Wales.
