Section 1. Summary Recommendation: The current models of separating children in young offender institutions should be replaced with a new system that ensures a regime that is equivalent to their non-separated peers. Recommendations to HM Prison and Probation Service/Youth Custody Service 1.15 Reintegration planning should start from the day a child is separated and contain practical, timebound targets that are focused on enabling the child to return to a normal regime at the first opportunity. 1.16 Separated children should have access to an equivalent education day to their non-separated peers. This should include meaningful face-to-face interaction with teachers. 1.17 Separated children should be able to and encouraged to spend time out of their cell interacting with staff and peers. 1.18 Separated children should be able to spend an hour exercising in the open air every day. 1.19 Separated children should be able to have a shower and a phone call every day. 1.20 Oversight arrangements should enable national managers to monitor how many children have been separated and for how long, and the regime that these children receive. This information should be published. 1.21 Safeguards for separated children should involve regular meaningful contact with a manager who has the authority to make changes to the child’s situation. Recommendations to NHS England and NHS Wales 1.22 Children who require a mental health assessment should receive one without delay. 1.23 Children assessed as needing a mental health bed should be transferred within two weeks, in line with national NHS guidelines. Separation of children in young offender institutions 9