Section 4. Findings
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All cells or rooms in STCs and YOIs have an emergency call bell. When children were asked
if their bell was normally answered within five minutes, only 30% said it was. However, this
differed significantly between STCs and YOIs, with 60% of the children in STCs reporting
that their bell was normally answered within five minutes compared with only a quarter
(25%) in YOIs. There was wide variation between establishments, ranging from 85% of
children reporting their bell was answered within five minutes at Oakhill, to only 18% at
Werrington and Wetherby.
Figure 27: Is your emergency call bell or intercom normally answered within five
minutes?
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Children were asked about victimisation or bullying they had experienced from other
children, and whether they would feel comfortable reporting it. There were no significant
differences in responses between children in STCs and those in YOIs to any of our questions
about victimisation by peers.
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Just over half (52%) of children reported that they had not experienced any victimisation by
other children. Two-thirds (66%) of Muslim children indicated that they had not been
victimised by other children, which was a significantly higher proportion than non-Muslim
children (50%). In terms of variation across the estate, 60% of respondents at Feltham told
us that they had not been victimised by other children, compared with just 23% of
respondents at the Keppel unit.
Children in Custody 2018–19
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