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Children in custody are kept in three types of institutions, with around 80% of them being in prison service custody which is the one represented in this scene.
Over the last decade we have seen an increasingly punitive approach to children in trouble and the demonisation of children to a point where they are made to feel unwelcome in public spaces and where we have become fearful of them on our streets.
Of course there are a small number of children who do commit serious offences and they have to be dealt with by a robust criminal justice system. However, almost 90 per cent of children who are locked up for their offending will reoffend again within two years.
We believe that the majority of young people who start down the path of bad behaviour can be helped to change direction. Our services and early intervention work reach out a helping hand to these young people, so that they can turn their lives around.
