Ashfield Young Offender Institute holds up to 400 males aged 15 to 18. I've worked here for nine years and before that I was a youth offending team worker. I also trained as a social worker.
I spend a lot of my day dealing with child protection issues. Around 30 per cent of young people here are children in care, so I have close links with children's social services and local authority-designated officers. As we take young people from 120 different sentencing courts, making these links can be difficult. Some social services drop young people when they arrive here, so the pressure is on us to make sure statutory reviews happen.
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