The head of the Youth Justice Board has said young people in custody are being put at risk by recent increases in the population of the juvenile secure estate. Rod Morgan, chair of the board, said the number of young people in custody has been increasing since May, and the rate of the increase has risen in recent weeks. “This is serious because we risk losing many of the gains that I believe we have made in the past five years since we took responsibility for the area,” he said at a conference on ‘Reducing custody for young people who...