Speeches by Slade.

“Is there anything different from the secure training centre?”

“There is obviously that—”

“Talking to transition, obviously you have two options: transition to adult custody or transition and resettlement back into the community. Particularly thinking about the secure children’s homes, how do you prepare a 17-year-old who has been in your type of setting to transition into an adult prison, given that it is a…”

“In terms of broader mental health provision across those two types of setting, are they similar to what you would find in a YOI?”

“The difficulty of ships passing through the strait is leading to fears across all sectors and supply chains, including food production, so the price of food is at risk as well as the price of oil. Increasingly offensive and bizarre social media posts by President Trump are bound to be making diplomatic efforts more dif…”

“What about secure children’s homes?”

“I am pleased that the Government support the principle of banning pavement parking and giving local authorities new powers, assuming that they come with new burdens funding. However, Lords amendment 40, which will give powers without a national framework, risks confusion, with inconsistent enforcement, frustrated resid…”

“De-escalation processes.”

“In terms of physical buildings or in terms of the way it operates?”

“We are running out of time, but could each of you in one sentence say either what is the biggest barrier, or what is the change you would want to see in terms of the youth estate?”

“In terms of the secure children’s homes and the training centre, what sort of mental health provisions do you have? I am talking about some of those severe mental illnesses that my colleague has referred to. What level of access do you have to those very highly skilled professionals that you might have in a mental heal…”

“It is not an imminent reopening?”

“Can I challenge then; if they are doing well what is the added value—given that you have to spend a whole load of money—in segregating those children further? I am assuming, as with Feltham, they are in small groups of living anyway.”

“It does, because I will talk briefly to mental health and then move on to transition. When we visited Feltham in January we learned that the enhanced support unit only had six beds available for children with mental health needs. First, in regard to YOIs, is the ESU at Wetherby still closed and when is it expected to r…”

“Can I just ask a quick question on that, which just struck me? If we had schools where the roll was falling, the funding would fall with it. How does your funding work? Is there a risk of reduced funding if you have reduced numbers in your establishments?”

“They have not been found guilty, okay, but—”

“Offending behaviour, yes.”

“That is very helpful, thank you, Sarah.”

“Thank you. I know we are going to be coming back to talk about education in a little while, so I just want to go back to Ashley’s point about the fact that these children have all committed crimes, some of them very serious crimes. I know that there is a very small number of children—maybe a tiny number of children—who…”

“It was in our papers for this brief, apologies. If I search 12% we might find it.”