Werrington inspection report 2023

Summary

Werrington is a young offender institution near Stoke-on-Trent, which at the time of this inspection held just 89 boys aged between 15 and 18 – slightly under its capacity. The risks associated with children’s custody means that we inspect young offender institutions more frequently, and our last inspection of Werrington was only last year. Our findings at this visit were consistent with the disappointing outcomes we reported on then. Our healthy establishment tests remained poor in safety and purposeful activity. In care they had deteriorated and were now not sufficiently good. Only in resettlement did we consider outcomes to be reasonable.

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