Werrington inspection report 2022
Summary
HMYOI Werrington is a facility for boys under the age of 18, located near Stoke-on-Trent. Capable of holding up to 118, at the time of our inspection just 66 children were in residence. The status of these children ranged from those recently remanded to some who were facing long and sometimes indeterminate sentences. Overall, this was a disappointing inspection which recorded a deterioration in three of our four healthy prison assessments – most notably in safety and purposeful activity, which we now judged to be poor. Despite the prison making significant progress in reducing the amount of selfharm, the perceptions of safety (as recorded in our detainee survey) were worse than any other young offender institution (YOI). Nearly 40% of children told us that they had felt unsafe at some point during their stay.