‘Our theme is relentless love’: England to open first secure school for young offenders

Oasis Restore, which will have bedrooms not cells, aims to revolutionise justice for children convicted of serious crimes

Children convicted of the most serious crimes will be shown relentless love" at England's first secure school, where they will live in bedrooms instead of cells, according to its evangelical Christian founder.

The Rev Steve Chalke, of Oasis academies, which won the contract to run the school on behalf of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), said relentless love was not a hippy" concept but a way of building trust with children who no one has cared about very often" before.