MPs on the all-party Justice Select Committee held the first hearing of an investigation into care and welfare within the ...

A visit to a Young Offender Institution that is breaking new ground in rehabilitating troubled children Tucked behind a racecourse and nestled in the Yorkshire countryside, sits one of the largest ...

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The teenager locked up over the killing of Yousef Makki will spend Christmas at Wetherby Young Offenders Institution (YOI). Rather than doing his time at a grim adult prison, Joshua Molnar, who turned ...

A quarter of young people say the riots could erupt again, inspectors visit Weatherby YOI, and West Mercia Police apologise over a rape campaign poster, all in the news today. More than a quarter of ...

The numbers of social workers based in young offenders institutions has increased but issues around the independence of child protection procedures remain. Years ago, when young offender institutions ...

Call for police to stop detaining children overnight; fall in reoffending rates; and bullying at Wetherby YOI, all in the news this week. Police are being urged to stop detaining children after ...

A violent teenage inmate attacked another in a prison exercise yard, repeatedly stabbing him to the face with a makeshift knife. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you ...