Suitable housing and access to education, training or employment can be the difference between a new start and the path back to offending for a young person leaving custody.
But despite efforts to improve resettlement support, progress to date has been patchy.
Earlier this month, the chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick told the justice select committee that little headway has been made on enhancing resettlement for young people since a landmark report last June called for radical improvements.
Indeed, statistics published by the Ministry of Justice in October revealed that reoffending rates for young people leaving custody have risen for the first time since 2006 – 71 per cent of young people convicted in 2010 reoffended within 12 months, compared to 70.6 per cent the previous year.
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