YES: Pauline Batstone, service manager, Bournemouth and Poole Youth Offending Team
A qualified yes. Undoubtedly some of the young people have benefited.
The criteria for success appear to be getting the young people away from their normal lifestyle and enforcing an alternative healthy lifestyle for a long period of time.
What appeared to be missing was any sort of work with the parents. The young people had changed when they were returned to the parents, but had the parents been helped to handle the new situation? How many UK parents would be prepared voluntarily to hand their children and their parental rights over to total strangers in a hostile environment for three months, and withstand the pleas from their children to "rescue" them? How many parents could afford it?
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