But Cavadino isn't complacent. At a time when youth crime is a mammoth concern for both the government and the public, he knows the charity must influence government at the highest levels.
"One of our aims is to make sure we can be more effective in influencing government policy in a number of areas," he says. "We're looking at the main areas of policy and priority. Although there have been moves in the right direction in many of them, the one we've failed to make an impact on is the prison population."
He says there are twice as many young people in custody as there was 10 years ago, with more work needed to bring numbers down. Cavadino feels that a return to the approach used in the 1980s could help to bring down the prison population.
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