input: Article: The BBC understands the government will take over the Medway Secure Training Centre, which was run by G4S.
A source said a report, commissioned by ministers to examine improvements at the centre in Rochester, would make "uncomfortable" reading for the firm.
The government said it was looking at options. G4S has declined to comment.
Police began investigating staff after the BBC's Panorama programme in January revealed assault claims at the unit.
Four men were arrested on suspicion of child neglect while a fifth was held on suspicion of assault.
All have been released on police bail.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will start operating the centre through its National Offender Management Service (Noms) by the end of July, according to the source.
A new director is expected to be appointed, but staff at Medway are likely to transfer to Noms.
It will be the first time the government has run a secure training centre.
An MoJ spokesman said it would announce the next steps in due course.
He said: "Our priority will always be the safety and welfare of young people in custody - that is why the Justice Secretary set up an Independent Improvement Board to examine the running of Medway STC.
"This sits alongside a wider review of youth justice."
The Panorama programme included footage apparently showing staff mistreating and abusing inmates.
Allegations relating to 10 boys, aged 14 to 17, included use of unnecessary force, foul language and a cover-up at the centre.
Five members of staff were sacked and three more suspended, while the unit's director, Ralph Marchant, stood down.
The unit takes youths aged 12 to 17 both on remand and after conviction.
In April, it emerged further allegations had been made by a young person who had been placed at the centre since the documentary was aired.

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output: The Ministry of Justice is to take over the running of a Kent young offenders' unit which was at the centre of claims that staff assaulted children.

input: Article: The incident happened as the Labour leader arrived at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London for a party meeting to discuss the draft general election manifesto.
Mr Wooltorton was said to be in good spirits while waiting for an ambulance.
By the evening, he was on his way home with two broken toes and bruising.
Mr Corbyn was driven to the meeting by officers from the Metropolitan Police's royalty and specialist protection unit.
A Met Police spokesman said the incident had been referred to the directorate of professional standards, which is responsible for the conduct of officers in the force.
In a statement released shortly after the incident, the BBC said: "An experienced BBC cameraman has been injured while filming at the Labour Party manifesto meeting.
"He has been taken to hospital for assessment and treatment. At the moment the BBC are focusing on their duty of care, making sure that he is OK."
Police have interviewed witnesses and a senior Labour source said the party was "looking into" the incident.

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output: BBC cameraman Giles Wooltorton has been released from hospital after his foot was run over by a car carrying Jeremy Corbyn.

input: Article: Mark Prisk told mortgage lenders that self-built homes should be considered as one way to boost the UK housing market.
He said that only about 10% of new UK homes were self-built, compared with 60% in France and Germany.
But homebuilders and lenders said this would only ever be a niche market.
Self-build has become more prominent through television shows such as Grand Designs and generally they involve an owner buying a plot of land and then hiring an architect to design a property.
Mr Prisk reaffirmed the government's push for self-built homes at a conference in London organised by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
He said that the UK was also well behind countries such as the US where 45% of new homes were self-built.
A group of residents in Ashley Vale, in Bristol, were worried about the redevelopment of a former scaffolding site in the area.
So they formed a not-for-profit community action group which bought and developed the site itself.
When building work began on 20 self-built homes in 2001, the people involved had no trouble raising the finance.
Borrowing became more difficult when five bungalows were built about five years ago.
But in the third phase of the project two years ago, they only secured mortgages for flats and a community space when the building work was completed.
Despite the increasing difficulty in securing finance, Johanna Nicholls, who chairs the group, said that they were looking for new plots to build more affordable homes.
The government has set aside a Â£30m investment fund to promote self-build. Sites in North East Derbyshire and Peterborough have recently been approved for a slice of the funding.
The opportunity for individuals and communities to build their own homes was now a realistic option, he said, and lenders should give them the chance.
"I'm not pretending self-build is the entire answer, but it is an element I want to encourage you to incorporate," he told the audience of mortgage lenders.
He said that the number of self-build mortgage products had increased.
However, the fact that these still numbered just over 20 meant that many in the industry only regarded this as niche part of the market, and nothing like sufficient to make a dent in the housing shortage.
"We welcome everyone building houses," said Stewart Baseley, of the Home Builders Federation.
"There is plenty of room on the pitch for all these balls to be kicked about. But self-build is not the solution that will solve the housing crisis."
Mark Clare, group chief executive of Barratt Developments, the UK's biggest housebuilder, said that self-built homes still needed to be financed and expertise needed to put them up.
He said that there would be a one million shortfall of homes by the end of the year.
Some 110,000 homes were being built, but 250,000 new households were being created, as people lived for longer and got married later.
"This is going to get worse before it gets better," he said.
Mr Baseley said that three times as many homes were built in the 1950s and 1960s, about half of which were for council housing.
"We are in the midst of a housing crisis," he said.

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output: Homeowners should not consider it a "pie in the sky dream" to build their own property, according to the new housing minister.

input: Article: Millers centre-back Richard Wood missed a succession of headers, his closest hitting the crossbar from close range.
Ryan Mendes was the stand-out player for Forest, firing narrowly wide in the first half before twice forcing goalkeeper Lee Camp into good saves.
Both sides remain nine points clear of the relegation zone with four games left after MK Dons' draw at Preston.
The draw halts a run of four straight losses for the visitors, with Rotherham making it nine league games unbeaten.
However, Wood's failure to take one of five presentable headed opportunities will disappoint Neil Warnock as his side missed the opportunity to leapfrog their opposition.
Rotherham have now drawn seven successive games against Nottingham Forest at home in the league, with their last win coming way back in September 1956.
Rotherham manager Neil Warnock:
"It's a cracking point and both sides will argue that they should have won. A point probably suits both teams in the situation that we are both in.
"Tactically we were slightly amiss in the first half but we were more dominant in the second.
"You look at their squad on paper and why they're down there with us I will never know."
Nottingham Forest caretaker manager Paul Williams:
"I've been trying to focus on the performances and apart from the Brentford game we've been slowly building blocks.
"We played some really good stuff today and I've told the players we've got to keep going now.
"There was some good play from the players and Ryan (Mendes) had a few chances to get us the points but I think on the whole a draw might be fair."

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output:
Rotherham and Nottingham Forest battled to a goalless draw to move both clubs closer to Championship survival.