The Liverpool City Council-run Gladstone House will close its doors in March 2008. A spokesman for the council said the 18-bed facility was closing because the council had failed to reach a deal with the Youth Justice Board (YJB), which purchases places in secure children's homes for young offenders. "Unfortunately we have been unable to do so because the amount offered was £1m short of what is required," he said. The YJB said the council's proposed new rate...