The Home Secretary's plans to impose house arrest on terrorism suspects have provoked a fierce debate, with claims it is a policy that no civilised society should pursue.
But for the children's sector there is a far more pressing and measurable problem that should be taking up more of Charles Clarke's time - the number of children in custody and the way in which they are detained.
As of October 2004, the Youth Justice Board, which is responsible for buying places in custody for young people given custodial sentences, bought 2,700 places in young offenders' institutions, which are run by the Prison Service, but only 274 in secure training centres and 235 in local authority secure children's homes.
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