https://www.womensrights.network/prisons-and-women
Absolutely shocking from WRN.
'Girls are currently held in mixed-sex settings including Secure Training Centres, secure children's homes and a secure school. They have also been held in Wetherby Young Offender Institution, an establishment for boys, in conditions which are a longstanding cause of grave concern for WRN and were extensively criticised in a recent report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons.
WRN holds that prisons for women and girls of all ages should be single-sex, both for prisoners and for staff. The practice of using mixed-sex accommodation for under 18s is one which breaches the human rights and safeguarding needs of girls; a position successfully won by Elizabeth Fry for adult women over 200 years ago. The argument that prison accommodation for children should be mixed-sex in order to mirror the outside community is utterly flawed - it is that outside community which has abused and traumatised girls, who require a therapeutic and trauma-informed service.'