The “inhumane treatment” of boys at Cookham Wood Young Offender Institution (YOI) has “got worse” over the last year, the setting’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) has warned.
Support offered to staff in youth offending teams could be used as a model of effective practice for adult probation services, according to the criminal justice inspectorate.
The Ministry of Justice and Youth Justice Board (YJB) have laid out plans to fill increasing numbers of probation officer vacancies in the youth justice system.