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A–D category: Not yet verified.
Predominant function (2025/26): Category C Trainer/Resettlement
Ministry of Justice performance classification. This describes the stated performance year, not a current A–D category or the categories of every prisoner.
Monthly snapshot: 24 August 2026
Operational capacity is the capacity reported for this prison in the same monthly bulletin.
Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
21 May 2024
Inspectors returning to HMYOI Cookham Wood in April found an establishment in limbo after HMPPS announced the site would be rerolled to hold adult prisoners. This decision was taken because of the population pressures in the adult estate and the failure to make improvements at…
9 April 2024
HM Inspectorate surveyed children at HMYOI Cookham Wood on 9 April 2024. The population was 48; questionnaires were given to 47 children and 39 were completed, an 83% response rate. One child was at court. The report presents the full responses and compares them with…
18 July 2023
HMYOI Cookham Wood is a young offender facility in Kent capable of holding 120 boys between the ages of 15 and 17, although some 18-year-olds are currently being retained due to population pressures in the adult estate. An institution dating from the 1970s, the accommodation…
28 April 2023
Urgent Notification letter, issued on 26 April 2023 Debriefing paper for the inspection of HMYOI Cookham Wood by HM Inspectorate of Prisons 04–20 April 2023 This paper represents the material presented at the full inspection debrief by HM Inspectorate of Prisons. The material and assessments…
7 June 2022
we found that outcomes had declined in the key area of purposeful activity and were poor, our lowest judgement. Outcomes for children were not sufficiently good in our three other healthy prison tests. The key issue was that staff did not challenge poor standards on…
16 November 2021
Providing relatively new accommodation, Cookham Wood in Kent is a wellestablished young offender institution (YOI) that has been largely redeveloped in recent years. The institution can hold up to 188 boys between the ages of 15 and 18, but due to reductions in the population…
18 February 2020
(ROTL) assessments and public protection work were not sufficiently robust and in our survey just a quarter of children told us they thought someone was helping them with their release. The lack of suitable accommodation for children being released was very concerning. In the coming…
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