The standards take a pathway and multi-professional approach, following the young person’s journey through a secure setting. They apply to children and young people aged between 10-17 (inclusive) on both welfare and justice placements in secure centres, including young offender institutions, secure children’s homes, secure training centres and their equivalents.
Healthcare staff should be like normal people. Come in here, do what you need to do, but still be normal you know.
Refresh
Six years on, the standards have been refreshed for England to align with changes to regulation, legislation and professional guidance.
As with the 2013 standards, we involved both healthcare and operational staff working in secure settings and young people living in secure settings. We worked as a partnership of Royal Colleges and Faculties and were supported by NHS England and NHS Improvement.
The refreshed standards are applicable specifically to secure settings in England. Secure settings in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland should refer to the original 2013 standards.
The following organisations have contributed to the refresh of the standards and have endorsed their publication: Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Nursing, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, British Psychological Society.