Prison
MoJ seeks to reduce conflict in youth custody
MoJ acknowledges over-use of physical restraint and solitary confinement in youth custody.
25th June 2020
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MoJ acknowledges over-use of physical restraint and solitary confinement in youth custody.
After a big fall in youth custody since 2008, the number of locked up children has been steadily rising since November 2016.
Payment by results has been getting a fairly consistent bad press recently with concerns about the funding mechanism’s use in the Work Programme, Drug Recovery pilots and worries about how it will work for the new reducing reoffending contracts.
So it was refreshing for me to see an example of a successful (albeit smallscale) example of PbR at last week’s No Offence (@NoOffenceCiC) conference. West Yorkshire succeeded in driving down their youth custody rate by a third through a PbR approach.
