The first borstal opened 100 years ago this week, establishing a method of dealing with troubled boys that lasted much of the past century. Here, Ron Lovelock recalls how he came to spend two years in ...

At first glance, the pictures seem to show a group of keen young men enthusiastically taking part in a series of innocent, if somewhat old-fashioned, pastimes. However, these extraordinary photographs ...

Like so many of the troubled teenagers she sees, Jenny Molloy, an education and social care expert, was once in care. Today, she is the author of two books and is appears in a TV experiment which sees ...

A leading child abuse lawyer has said the way some teenage detention centre inmates were treated in the 1970s and 1980s could be officially classed as torture. David Greenwood, who has acted for ...

Man of The People Eamonn Holmes' plea for Borstals to be brought back attracted a pile of letters... He's so right. I went to Borstal more than 30 years ago. I'm not proud of that but it scared the ...

PESHAWAR, Sept 7: Participants of a consultation on Friday called upon the provincial government to consult major stakeholders, especially Child Protection Commission, about the bill on establishment ...

Victims have waited years to tell their stories, senior counsel to the biggest public inquiry into child abuse ever held in the UK has said. The Historical Institutional Abuse, external Inquiry (HIA) ...

Badly behaved children would be sent to schools modelled on Borstals under proposals to be announced today by Michael Howard. The Conservative leader will say that a Tory government would set up 150 ...

London mayor Boris Johnson has called for rioting and looting youngsters to be sent to tough units specialising in dealing with unruly children. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

MINISTER FOR Justice Alan Shatter has pledged an end to the “old culture of the borstals in Ireland” in St Patrick’s Institution for Young Offenders in Dublin. He said 60 per cent of staff had been ...

The most wide-ranging inquiry into institutional child abuse undertaken in the UK has opened in Northern Ireland. The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) is examining claims of sexual abuse, ...

The biggest public inquiry into child abuse ever held in the UK has begun its first public hearings in Northern Ireland. The Historical Institutional Abuse, external Inquiry (HIA) is examining abuse ...