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36 Prob. J. 2 (1989)

handle is hein.journals/probj36 and id is 1 raw text is: UPDATE Juvenile Custody Abolition An authoritative Advisory Committee of the Children's Society, chaired by Virginia Bottomley (now ajunior minis- ter at the Department of the Environ- ment) and including Harry Fletcher, NAPO Assistant General Secretary, was established to review the evidence con- cerning penal custody for juvenile offenders and make recommendations about appropriate provision. Their Re- port Penal Custody for Juveniles: The Line of Least Resistance (1988), makes firm recommendations for the early in- cremental abolition of penal custody for this age group; to be replaced by approaches which strengthen com- munity and family ties. Among recommendations: * Provision for the residential and se- cure accommodation of juvenile offenders should be made by local authority and social services de- partments and overseen by the DoH. * A Juvenile Crime Authority should be established in every local au- thority area to oversee local provi- sion, policy and practice and be the responsibility of the Chief Execu- tive. * Provision of community program- mes for juvenile offenders by local authorities should be mandatory, in line with DoH guidelines and approved by the Juvenile Crime Authority. * Girls and boys should be treated identically; discriminatory practice and outcomes to the disadvantage of black and ethnic minority young people should be monitored and challenged. A number of their recommendations, such as the abolition of the criminal care order and the introduction of a condition of residence as an adjunct to supervision orders, have been incorpo- rated in the Children Bill currently be- fore Parliament. From the Children's Society, Edward Rudolf House, Margery Street, London WC1X OJL 4B Day Centres in Action Revived Home Office Research Unit in- terest in probation work is welcome (the last Study addressing a mainline Service theme was back in 1979) and it isn't surprising that Schedule II 4B and Day Centres now receive scrutiny, given their mushrooming but mongrel development since 1982 and the Home Office's wish to gain interest from their investment. The author points out that the pro- ject was designed as a modest, descrip- tive exercise and he does not dis- appoint. From the tally of Day Centres freeze-framed in mid-1984, 50 received formal questionnaires (44 responded) and a cross-sample of six supplied de- tailed case studies. The results beg more questions than they answer and rely heavily on the subjective views of Centre organisers. Not surprisingly, it proved impossible to assess what suc- cess Centres have had in preventing re- offending. Nevertheless, this snapshop of the state of the art as practised in late 1986 should prove influential both in

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