United Kingdom · West Midlands · Stoke-on-Trent
HMP/YOI Werrington
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YOI prison in Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands.
Background
HMYOI Werrington (also known as Werrington Juvenile Centre) is a male juveniles' prison located in the village of Werrington in Staffordshire, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
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Capacity
142
Current population
—
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1895
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 22 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
HM Prison & Probation ServicePopulation held
male
Opened
1895
Region
West Midlands
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
level of risk managed within YOIs, recent poor performance, and the particular support to address the poor outcomes in our healthy prison tests of safety and disappointing outcomes we reported on then. Our healthy establishment tests remained poor in safety and purposeful activity. In care they had deteriorated outcomes to be reasonable. HMYOI Werrington is a facility for boys under the age of 18, located were concerned to find outcomes for children had deteriorated in three of our four healthy prison assessments and were now poor in safety we made the following judgements about outcomes for prisoners.
Visiting
Werrington was only last year. Our findings at this visit were consistent with the our visit, just 55 children were in residence. At our last inspection we
Mailing
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Practical info
remained poor in safety and purposeful activity. In care they had deteriorated and were now not sufficiently good. Only in resettlement did we consider and purposeful activity.
Known issues
HM Inspectorate of Prisons completed a full inspection of HMYOI Werrington in July 2025, IRP inspections in May 2024 and September 2022, full inspections in November 2023 and May 2022, and a full inspection in January 2020; reports are available on the HMIP website.
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Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 19/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · 5 oversight reports in the last 5 years
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 24. The national average across 584 scored United Kingdom facilities is 4 — 20 points above national average.
Related facilities
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
- Parc Prison and Young Offender InstituteMediumYOI
- HMP Stoke HeathShropshireMediumYOI
- HMP BrinsfordWolverhamptonMediumYOI
- HMP High DownSurreyMediumYOI
- HMP Swinfen HallStaffordshireMediumYOI
- Feltham Prison and Young Offender InstitutionMiddlesexMediumYOI
Compared to other facilities in United Kingdom
583 peersHigher risk than 0% of peer facilities in United Kingdom.
Reports
- HMIP28 Jul 2025
Werrington is a young offender institution near Stoke-on-Trent, which at the time of this inspection held just 81 boys aged between 15 and 18. The high level of risk managed within YOIs, recent poor performance, and the particular vulnerabilities associated with the children held, mean we inspect young offender institutions more frequently than adult prisons. Our last inspection of Werrington in 2023 found an unstable establishment in need of substantial support to address the poor outcomes in our healthy prison tests of safety and
- HMIP13 May 2024
1.1 Werrington is a young offender institution near Stoke-on-Trent, which at the time of this inspection held 83 boys aged between 15 and 18. At our previous inspection we found a site struggling with a churn in its
- HMIP21 Nov 2023
Werrington is a young offender institution near Stoke-on-Trent, which at the time of this inspection held just 89 boys aged between 15 and 18 – slightly under its capacity. The risks associated with children’s custody means that we inspect young offender institutions more frequently, and our last inspection of Werrington was only last year. Our findings at this visit were consistent with the disappointing outcomes we reported on then. Our healthy establishment tests remained poor in safety and purposeful activity. In care they had deteriorated and were now not sufficiently good. Only in resettlement did we consider outcomes to be reasonable. Werrington’s predicament was not helped by the instability and churn in its
- HMIP12 Sept 2022
1.1 HMYOI Werrington is a facility for boys under the age of 18, located near Stoke-on-Trent. It can hold up to 118 children but, at the time of our visit, just 55 children were in residence. At our last inspection we were concerned to find outcomes for children had deteriorated in three of our four healthy prison assessments and were now poor in safety and purposeful activity. 1.2 At our previous inspections of HMYOI Werrington in 2020 and 2022, we made the following judgements about outcomes for prisoners. Figure 1: HMYOI Werrington healthy prison outcomes in 2020 and 2022 Good Reasonably good Not sufficiently good Poor
- HMIP20 May 2022
HMYOI Werrington is a facility for boys under the age of 18, located near Stoke-on-Trent. Capable of holding up to 118, at the time of our inspection just 66 children were in residence. The status of these children ranged from those recently remanded to some who were facing long and sometimes indeterminate sentences. Overall, this was a disappointing inspection which recorded a deterioration in three of our four healthy prison assessments – most notably in
- HMIP20 Jan 2020
Full inspection of HMYOI Werrington (2020-01-20)
Data completeness
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Sources
- GOV.UK â HMP/YOI Werrington
- HMI Prisons inspection reports
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Find a prison â GOV.UK — UK Ministry of Justice / HMPPS
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons â reports — HMI Prisons (UK)
- Wikidata (Q5635282)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). HMP/YOI Werrington. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hmp-werrington
"HMP/YOI Werrington." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hmp-werrington.
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