18 December 2020
Urgent action must be taken to stop the unacceptable treatment of vulnerable children in a ‘bleak regime’ at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (
STC), Ofsted, HM Inspectorate of Prisons (
HMIP), and Care Quality Commission (
CQC) say.
UN) to the Secretary of State for Justice because of continued poor care and leadership at the MTC-run centre near Rugby. Robert Buckland now has 28 days to set out how these concerns will be addressed.
In October 2020, the inspectorates found that, due to COVID-19 health guidelines, newly admitted children – some as young as 15 – were being locked into their bedrooms for 14 days, and only allowed out for 30 minutes a day.