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Building trust: the importance of positive relationships in young offender institutions

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Building trust: the importance of positive relationships in young offender institutions - report (PDF, 1.4 MB)

A thematic review by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, June 2025

Building trust: the importance of positive relationships in young offender institutions – Cymraeg/Welsh
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Children in young offender institutions (YOIs) have little opportunity to build vital relationships with staff that will help them address their offending, according to a new report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons.

The thematic review reveals that the failure to foster positive relationships affects the ability to run safe establishments in which children can engage with education, health care and offending behaviour programmes, as well to defuse conflict and violence.

Read the press release in full