Treatment centres attacked
Conditions at Britain's two treatment centres for severely disturbed youngsters have barely improved despite damning reports in the past five years, independent inspectors say in a report on Glenthorne Youth Treatment Centre in Birmingham and the St Charles centre in Essex. Teenagers have to live in dirty, broken- down buildings and receive little psychiatric help, the report says.
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