Guidance

Apply to run the first secure school

Guidance on how to apply to set up the first secure school in the UK.

From:
Ministry of Justice and Youth Custody Service
Published
31 October 2018
Last updated
1 July 2019 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

How to apply guide (for information only)

PDF, 455 KB, 55 pages

Details

The application window for the first secure school closed on 1 March 2019. Following a rigorous assessment process, Oasis Charitable Trust was chosen as the UK’s first secure school operator. Find out more in the press release from 1 July 2019 or on the Oasis Restore secure school website.

The ‘How to Apply’ guidance sets out the process applicants need to follow to make an application to run a secure school, and the criteria that all applications would be assessed against.

Contact the secure schools team, Secure_Schools@justice.gov.uk for further information about the project or to receive a copy of the Oasis application.

Updates to this page

Published 31 October 2018
Last updated 1 July 2019 + show all updates

  1. Successful applicant announced.

  2. First published.

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