ABSTRACT
In this final chapter our aim is to look at two kinds of pressures that come to bear on administrators and practitioners responsible for setting up and maintaining programmes for working with young offenders. On the one hand there are the legal issues that must set the framework within which programmes operate. In this chapter we look at two highly relevant pieces of legislation, the Children Act 1989, and the Criminal Justice Act 1991. One the other hand, with respect to the delivery of programmes, there is the bottom-line issue of treatment integrity. Programmes can be set up, staff trained, and a real momentum achieved, but how can that momentum be kept on line? In the second part of this chapter we consider the issue of treatment integrity. However, we begin with the legislation and the Children Act 1989.
