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Medway Flooring Centre | Medway Flooring Centre RochesterSeven agents associates at a Kent adolescent offenders centre accept been abeyant afterwards filmed affirmation of corruption was presented by the BBC.
The agents were alive at the Medway Defended Training Centre in Rochester, managed by aegis close G4S.
The allegations - baldheaded by Panorama - absorb accidental force, abhorrent accent and a cover-up.
G4S has accounting to the BBC to try to stop advertisement of the footage, arguing filming was unauthorised and illegal.
However, Paul Cook of G4S said he was "shocked and appalled" and was acknowledging a badge investigation.
The claims chronicle to 10 boys age-old 14 to 17.
The centre holds 56 children, mainly boys, age-old 12 to 17. It is not accustomed to booty any added while the analysis takes place.
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Medway Flooring Centre | Medway Flooring Centre RochesterMr Cook, managing administrator of G4S children's services, told BBC Radio Kent he was abreast of the allegations on 30 December and referred them that day to the Medway Adolescent Protection aggregation and the police.
He said the BBC had referred to "staff affliction and afield abstinent adolescent people, application abhorrent and calumniating accent and declining to report... their actions".
Among the allegations baldheaded by Panorama and now accountable to analysis are that Medway staff:
Mr Cook said the seven associates of agents called in a Panorama certificate beatific to him were anon suspended.
Safeguarding had additionally been stepped up at the centre while the analysis takes place, he added.
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The Howard League, which campaigns for chastening reform, tweeted the allegations were "extremely concerning", abacus it had acknowledged audience at the centre.
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medway flooring – Meze Blog | Medway Flooring Centre RochesterTweeting in a claimed capacity, its CEO Frances Crook said she was admiring Panorama had advised corruption in G4S homes.
She added: "@TheHowardLeague has represented accouchement who've had austere injuries in G4S defended children's homes. It demands accessible concern."
Medway had a afflicted start. Within months of aperture in 1998 there'd been a austere disturbance, aegis breaches and accumulation agents resignations.
In contempo years altitude appeared to accept acclimatized down. An Ofsted analysis address in September 2014 rated Medway as "good with some outstanding features". Inspectors said the centre was "orderly" and "calm"; adolescent bodies were said to feel safe.
The affirmation aggregate by Panorama seems to acrylic a altered account and will accession questions about G4S's adequacy for attractive afterwards some of Britain's best troubled, accessible and agitated teenagers afterwards it was bare of its arrangement for managing Rainsbrook defended training centre in Northamptonshire in 2015.
There are additionally questions for those who consistently adviser Medway - did they accept any apropos and did they active the authorities?
Kent Badge said in a statement: "All all-important attention measures accept been taken and inquiries are ongoing."
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Medway Flooring Centre | Medway Flooring Centre RochesterThe Youth Justice Board said it had added its ecology of the centre and added the attendance of its absolute advancement service, delivered by Barnardo's.
Deborah Coles, who is the administrator of the alms Inquest, which helps bodies beggared by a afterlife in custody, said in any added ambience the analysis "would be adolescent abuse".
"That it took clandestine filming to acknowledge the abusage of confined accouchement credibility to the amiss abortion of ecology and blank by the YJB and G4S," she said.
"Following the deaths of two accouchement in 2004 afterward the use of force, assurances were fabricated that the ability and practices would be afflicted and yet the abuses continue.
"This credibility to a abridgement of accountability and ability of impunity.
"It is bright these institutions are butterfingers of ameliorate and charge be bankrupt down."
The Panorama programme Teenage Prison Corruption Exposed will be advertisement on Monday, 11 January on BBC One at 20:30 GMT.
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