The Secure Training Centre Rules 1998

Regime activities

27.—(1) A trainee shall be occupied in education, training, physical education and programmes designed to tackle offending behaviour provided in accordance with rule 3 of these Rules.

(2) For the purpose of determining the appropriate activities under this rule for individual trainees, each trainee shall be assessed as soon as practicable after the date of his reception into the centre and, within 2 weeks of that date, a training plan shall be prepared.

(3) The training plan for each trainee shall be reviewed—

(a) in the case of a trainee who is ordered to be detained for a period of 6 months or less, every two months; and

(b) in the case of a trainee who is ordered to be detained for a period of more than 6 months, every three months.

(4) The preparation and reviewing of a trainee’s training plan shall be undertaken in consultation with—

(a) the services responsible for the trainee’s supervision after release; and

(b) the trainee’s parent or guardian.

(5) An officer of the centre shall be nominated by the governor for the purposes of preparing, supervising and reviewing the training plan of each trainee and carrying out the consultation referred to in paragraph (4) above.

(6) The medical officer or a member of the healthcare staff may excuse a trainee from any activity on medical grounds; and no trainee shall be set to participate in any activity for which he is considered by the medical officer or, as the case may be, member of healthcare staff, to be unfit.