After the death of 15-year-old Gareth Myatt at a secure training centrein 2004, the Howard League for Penal Reform asked the Liberal Democratpeer to investigate the wider picture. Last week, Carlile, better knownfor his review of terrorism legislation, made 45 recommendations.
"We've proposed some fairly fundamental changes to Government policy,including moving responsibility for all of this to the children'sminister," he says. "The fundamental difference would be child-centredrather than criminal justice-centred policy. If you look at the needs ofthis group, many have had their childhood disrupted badly. They haveeducational and emotional needs and these are child issues." And Carlileadmits he was shocked at some of the practices he witnessed.
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