When the Youth Justice Board created the post of head of prevention four years ago, Bob Ashford felt that someone had finally seen the light. As a youth offending team manager with a background in children's services, the fact that more effort needed to go into preventive work was, he says, "obvious". "I've worked a lifetime in children's personal social services," he says. "I was in the job so long I was starting to see the second generation of children coming along. I was working with families where they had really entrenched problems. It was so obvious that if we...