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Three privately run secure training centres have received financial penalties of more than £1m as a result of contract failures, including the failure to deliver specified services to 12 to 16-year-old offenders.

The Youth Justice Board, which has contracts with the three centres, withheld £910,874 from Medway Secure Training Centre's budget, more than £155,000 from Rainsbrook STC in Rugby, and about £74,000 from Hassockfield STC in Durham.

The money will be retained in the Youth Justice Board's budget and used in other work to help prevent youth offending.