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Red Bank Secure Children's Home

Red Bank Secure Unit, part of Red Bank Community Home, was one of several English Local Authority Secure Children's Homes located in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside. It opened in 1965, when it was one of three such units, and accepted both boys and girls. The unit closed in May 2015.

Notable inmates
Mary Bell, from 1968 to 1973. Bell was transferred to Red Bank secure unit where she was the only female among approximately 24 inmates. Bell would later claim that she was sexually abused by a member of staff and several inmates while incarcerated at this facility, claiming the sexual abuse began when she was 13. • Jon Venables, from 1993 to 2001, in Vardy House, a small eight-bedded unit. Venables was one of James Bulger's killers. Despite the facility being a short-stay remand unit, Venables eventually made good progress at Red Bank after initial problems, resulting in him being kept there for eight years. ==References==
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