Feltham independent review of progress 2026
Summary
we found at our last inspection At our previous inspections of HMYOI Feltham in 2024 and 2025 we made the following judgements . Figure 1: HMYOI Feltham healthy establishment outcomes in 2024 and 2025 At both inspections we found serious failures in our test of ‘safety’ and ‘purposeful activity’, where outcomes for children were poor. Outcomes in ‘care’ and ‘resettlement’ were ‘reasonably good’. What we found during this review visit At this independent review of progress, we reviewed 10 concerns and found that improvement had been too slow, particularly in those areas of most importance to children. We assessed progress to be insufficient or worse in seven areas, while it was reasonable in just three. The substantive governor returned to the institution in December 2025 after an absence of 11 months working with the Youth Custody Service central team.