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More children are locked up



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Published Date: 11 September 2008
THE number of unruly and troubled children locked up in Scottish secure accommodation has reached an all-time high.
There are seven secure units north of the Border and official statistics released yesterday showed there were 346 admissions to these during 2007-8 – up from 307 the previous year.

More than one in ten of admissions involved children aged 13 or under.

Throughout the year the average number of children and young people in the units was 102 – a rise on the previous year's average of 94.

The average cost per bed per week was £4,500.





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  • Last Updated: 10 September 2008 10:26 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Scottish prisons
 
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Guga II,

Rockall 11/09/2008 01:00:13
This is getting beyond a joke, 346 admissions during 2007-07, with an average of 102 of them in these units. At £4,500 per week, that amounts to just under half a million pounds a week, or nearly £24 million a year.

The cost of a birch would be about £1, not £4,500 per week. Moreover, a birch would last for a very long time.


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drunken proffet,

Tassy 11/09/2008 08:21:05
Guga, I suffered the belt when I was a kid, some from the more illustrious colleges had the cane, the Isle of Man had the birch. It was quick, painful and over and done with. Nowadays the attitude of the authorities makes you laugh, well if you do not laugh, you would weep. Tears of despair. Those people who brought in the changes to education and discipline for children I presume lie hidden in history unless someone can research their names. I am not too great on religion but I do know that there are a lot of folk involved with this who may not be the devil's minions but they are definitely evil.

 

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