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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Simon Hattenstone

Justice review calls for end to child imprisonment in England

Man and a child in shadow at a football pitch within a young offender’s institution
A new review has found that secure training centres and young offender institutions are beyond reform. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Alamy

Leading children’s rights and justice organisations have called for an end to child imprisonment in England.

In a review, they argue that child imprisonment is beyond reform and that responsibility for children who have to be deprived of their liberty should be transferred from the Ministry of Justice to the Department for Education.

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