Feltham inspection report 2025
Summary
While the scores for our healthy prison assessments had not changed – poor for ‘safety’ and ‘purposeful activity’, and reasonably good for ‘care’ and ‘resettlement' – inspectors left with some optimism that things at this West London, under-18 YOI were beginning to improve after a troubled eighteen months. A new interim governor and deputy had recently taken over the prison and, with an enthusiastic leadership team, had begun to make some progress. ‘Keepapart’ lists that prevented children from mixing had been reduced, meaning it was now possible to run better regimes on some wings than we had seen at our last inspection. Levels of violence, which although still the highest of any prison in the country, had also begun to reduce over the last few months. The governor and prison group director had worked with the education provider to improve the service and our colleagues at Ofsted were positive. Attendance, however, was very poor at a rate that would never have been acceptable at a school or a college.