The Children’s Commissioner had noted in its 2017 annual State of Care report that material conditions in Secure units more generally remained institutionalised: ‘In the secure units, even in care and protection residences, are prison-like and unwelcoming. They contain few furnishings and young people are not allowed to take personal belongings in with them.’ I repeat my observation that the prison-like environment in Secure Care rooms, where children and young people, often with previous trauma, are separated from their peers and where they need to sleep and Secure Care room in a Youth Justice facility. attend to bodily needs in the same space, are degrading, harmful and, as previously suggested, inappropriate for housing children and young people. It is my hope that many of these issues will be addressed in the new, community-based Care and Protection facilities. There was some evidence of trauma informed work with children and young people in Secure rooms, but the good work was hampered, in my view, by the very traumatising nature of these rooms. Secure Care unit corridor in a Youth Justice facility. 34 Evidence provided to us by Oranga Tamariki and reports from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s OPCAT inspections demonstrate some work in both Youth Justice and Care and Protection residences to work with children and young people to better understand their strengths and weaknesses and identify their triggers. These are welcome initiatives. However, the Daily Management Plans which were previously used (and highlighted as good practice in TOTB) were no longer completed daily, replaced instead with a one-page summary.