Feltham urgent notification 2019
Summary
A key function of an establishment such as Feltham A is to provide education for the children held there, yet the provision had fallen to a little over eight hours a week per child, and attendance rates stood at 37%. Disturbingly, there were no plans in place to improve this. Not only were children not getting to education, but neither was education getting to them. In the four weeks leading up to the inspection some 800 hours had been scheduled to be delivered on residential wings, but only around 250 hours had actually materialised. Not surprisingly, Ofsted judged educational provision to be ‘inadequate’ in all areas. The vital task of resettling children into their communities was impeded by the poor regime.