Category and function
A–D category: Not yet verified.
Feltham B predominant function (2025/26): Category C Trainer/Resettlement · Source
This classification applies to the named part, not the whole shared unit.
Capacity and population
Monthly snapshot: 24 August 2026
Shared figures: Feltham A and Feltham B. The Ministry of Justice reports these establishments together. These figures cover the whole shared unit and are not a separate count for this prison.
476Combined population
553Combined operational capacity
Operational capacity is the combined capacity reported for this shared unit in the same monthly bulletin.
Official monthly spreadsheet · Ministry of Justice publication
Address and location
HMYOI Feltham
Bedfont Road
Feltham
Middlesex
TW13 4NDPrison site location
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Location information checked 13 September 2026.
Independent reports
HM Inspectorate of Prisons reports
10 August 2026
HM Inspectorate surveyed children at Feltham A on 18 May 2026. The population was 74; questionnaires were given to 69 children and 54 were completed, a 78% response rate. Five children could not be included because four were at court and one was on release…
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6 July 2026
we found at our last inspection At our previous inspections of HMYOI Feltham in 2024 and 2025 we made the following judgements . Figure 1: HMYOI Feltham healthy establishment outcomes in 2024 and 2025 At both inspections we found serious failures in our test of…
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1 December 2025
This inspection of HMP Feltham B was the first since the prison’s re-designation as a category C adult male establishment following many years operating as a young offender institute (YOI). This transition was not helped by a failure on the part of HMMPS to plan…
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26 August 2025
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…
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13 November 2024
inspectors identified some progress at the YOI, fundamental weaknesses remained and there was insufficient or no meaningful progress in six of the nine concerns reviewed from the last inspection in March. The establishment was locked in a vicious cycle of high levels of staff sickness…
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30 September 2024
HM Inspectorate surveyed children at HMYOI Feltham A on 30 September 2024. The population was 113; questionnaires were given to 99 children and 81 were completed, an 82% response rate. The report presents the full responses and compares them with other young offender institutions surveyed…
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16 July 2024
At our 2022 inspection of HMYOI Feltham A, we awarded some of the best healthy establishment test scores achieved in recent years at this west London jail. It was disappointing to return to find there had been a deterioration in standards with levels of violence…
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19 February 2024
Report on an independent review of progress at HMP Feltham B by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (8–10 January 2024) In 2023 leaders at Feltham B, formerly a YOI holding men aged 18-21 years old, were told they needed to extend the age range of…
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25 April 2023
Feltham B is a YOI in west London for 18–21-year-olds that shares a site with the neighbouring under-18s facility. It contained 307 prisoners at the time of our inspection, a capacity that was reduced by the closure of three units. In the next year the…
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25 November 2022
the inspection was 92 children, but the population was just 62 at the time of our visit. Our previous inspection found significantly improved outcomes for children, which were now reasonably good in three out of four of our healthy prison tests. While outcomes had also…
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14 June 2022
Our inspection of Feltham A in 2019 revealed “a dramatic and precipitous collapse in standards”. The prison had become so violent and chaotic that my predecessor decided to invoke the urgent notification (UN) process – the first time it had been used in a children’s…
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23 March 2021
HMYOI Feltham A is an establishment in West London that holds children aged 15 to 18. It is jointly managed with an adjacent establishment, Feltham B, which holds young adults. At the time of our last full inspection of Feltham A in July 2019, outcomes…
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24 July 2019
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…
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