Section 4. Findings Safety and security 4.54 Overall, more than a third (35%) of children in custody said that they had felt unsafe in their establishment at some point. At the time of the survey, 13% of respondents said that they were feeling unsafe. This was applicable for 30% of Traveller children, a significantly higher proportion than non-Traveller children (12%). A significantly higher proportion of children with a disability reported that they had ever felt unsafe (52% compared with 29% of children without a disability), or were feeling unsafe at the time of the survey (28% compared with 8% of children without a disability). 4.55 While differences between perceptions of safety in STCs and YOIs were not statistically significant, they did vary considerably between establishments. More than half of children in the Keppel unit (55%) reported having felt unsafe there at some point, and 27% said that they were feeling unsafe there at the time of the survey, a higher proportion than at any other establishment. Figure 25: Have you ever felt unsafe here? Figure 26: Do you feel unsafe now? 38 Children in Custody 2018–19

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