ABSTRACT
The description of the family and social relations, education and employment, physical and psychological health and living situations of 204 graduates from specialist treatment centres offers much room for encouragement. Certainly, progress is better than that predicted by experts when the study began. The question is what contribution do the specialist centres make to any progress made by the young people?’ This chapter helps with an answer in as much as it provides a benchmark against which the progress of young people on the five career routes could be prospectively measured. The data described here was used to set out what could be achieved at best and worst for 56 young people for whom outcomes were unknown when the follow-ups began. First, it is necessary to build in findings on the offending patterns of treatment centre graduates.
