The Association of Youth Offending Team Managers spent part of last week discussing how it could expand and what it should campaign on. At the same time, the Government it will be debating with was being reshuffled and formulating its own agenda for the next Parliament.
Top among the issues concerning the association's chair, Pauline Batstone, is that the tough rhetoric of the election may be carried through into the work of government. This is a worry that is well illustrated by a case she is dealing with as the manager of Bournemouth and Poole Youth Offending Team, where a young man has 24 convictions for breaching antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs).
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