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SECURITY profiteer G4S announced yesterday the sell-off of its children’s services in Britain, including a youth prison where staff were alleged to have bullied children.
The decision came a month after five men working at the company’s Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent were arrested on suspicion of assault and child neglect.
Despite revenues of around £40 million a year, G4S said it was ditching children’s services “in line with a continuing review of [its] business portfolio.”
Working in a high-risk sector, prison officers’ calls for proper PPE must be heeded – and the POA will be fighting to ensure effective protection at work is delivered, writes MARK FAIRHURST
AN “alarming” ingress of drugs at a prison led to the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year, inspectors reveal today.
