Children make more than 500,000 prison visits every year but we know "next to nothing" about the impact that they have, it has been warned.
The figure has been revealed because of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests made to around 120 public prisons in England and Wales.
A briefing from Barnardo’s, the charity behind the research, has this week warned of a “policy black hole”, with the needs of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children going unnoticed.
The FoI responses show that, in 2013, children made an average of almost 10,000 prison visits a week – or 1,387 per day – with around 18,000 children visiting a prison once a month on average.
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