Category: Youth
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If Every Secure Placement Is Individually Matched, Why Was This the Outcome?
The recent reports about a 13-year-old girl being placed in secure care at St Mary’s Kenmure have generated a predictable debate about mixed-sex secure care. In my view, that’s the wrong debate. Secure care in Scotland has accommodated boys and girls together for decades. When I was in residential care and secure accommodation, services were…