Feltham inspection report 2024
Summary
At our 2022 inspection of HMYOI Feltham A, we awarded some of the best healthy establishment test scores achieved in recent years at this west London jail. It was disappointing to return to find there had been a deterioration in standards with levels of violence now the highest of any prison in the country. In the summer of 2023, things had got particularly bad, with a dramatic increase in the number of assaults and a serious incident in the education block that led to its closure from 22 August until early September. It is to the credit of the governor and some impressive functional leaders that this decline has begun to be arrested. Violence is at the root of almost all of the challenges that we found during this inspection. There has been an increase in extensive ‘keep apart’ lists that can become as much a cause of violence as they are a solution.