Life in secure care

07 Apr 2009 Ofsted

Ref: 080241

Secure units are children’s homes that have been specially approved by the Government to ‘restrict liberty’ – that is, to lock young people inside the home for a period of time.

When we visited each secure unit, we met the young people living there as a group. We asked them to tell us their experience of living in security, going through a set of questions which covered each of the main headings in this report.

We asked the same questions in each group, although of course the discussions then developed in different ways.