Last week, at a YMCA event, Robb met a former drug dealer who resistedgoing back to a life of crime with support from YMCA workers to findsomewhere to live, work and stay off drugs. But with almost four out offive young people who leave custody reoffending within a year, many arenot so lucky.
It is hardly surprising, says Robb, who raised the issue at the recentlaunch of the Children Now Manifesto in the House of Commons. "Gettingaccess to mainstream services to get support for a child is where thesystem is creaking," Robb says.
All too often, young people out of prison arrive back in society to findthey no longer have a place at school, accommodation and benefits haveto be sorted out, and they are alone in the struggle to stay off drugs,he says.
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