Guidance

Apply to run the first secure school

Guidance on how to apply to set up the first secure school in the UK.

Applies to England and Wales

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The application window for the first secure school closed on 1 March 2019. Following a rigorous assessment process, Oasis Charitable Trust was chosen as the UK’s first secure school operator. Find out more in the press release from 1 July 2019 or on the Oasis Restore secure school website.

The ‘How to Apply’ guidance sets out the process applicants need to follow to make an application to run a secure school, and the criteria that all applications would be assessed against.

Contact the secure schools team, Secure_Schools@justice.gov.uk for further information about the project or to receive a copy of the Oasis application.

Published 31 October 2018
Last updated 1 July 2019 + show all updates
  1. Successful applicant announced.

  2. First published.