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An inquest blamed prison staff yesterday for failures that led to a teenager boy hanging himself.
Seventeen-year-old Jake Hardy hung himself in his cell at HMYOI Hindley in Wigan on January 20 2012 and died in hospital four days later.
A jury at Bolton coroner’s court found that a series of 12 individual failures by prison staff more than minimally contributed to his death.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
MARK FAIRHURST highlights the main issues facing officers in a long neglected service, and raised by front-line delegates at POA conference last week, including understaffing, violence, bullying and the ongoing denial of workers’ right to strike