Back on Track

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	Youth Justice in Numbers Download the Petition Examples of Best Practice Real Lives – A Child Failed by the System Background Information

Community Care magazine’s Back on Track
campaign is calling for justice for children and young people in
custody. We need your help.

Overall Campaign Aims
Community Care is campaigning for a dramatic
reduction in the number of children and young people being held in
custody and calling for the greater use of community sentences
instead.  We urge that custody is only ever used as a last resort
and for the shortest possible length of time. For a full list of
the campaigns aims click
here.

How can I get involved?
We want as many people as possible to support the ‘Back on
Track’ campaign. There are many ways you can get involved:

• Attend the Working with Young
  People at Risk of Offending Conference held on
  27th October 2004 at the ORT House Conference
  Centre, London. Click
  here for more details.
• Sign our
  petition
• Contact your MP. Tell
  them that you have heard about our campaign. Ask where they stand
  on the issue of young people in custody. Did they sign Hilton
  Dawson MP’s early day motion (no.1397) supporting the Back on Track
  campaign and voicing concern at the violation of human rights of
  many of the 11,000 young people currently behind bars in the
  UK?
• Write to your local paper with details of
  Community Care‘s campaign. This is a great way of starting
  a debate and raising the issue of youth justice with the general
  public.
• Let us know what’s happening in your area.
  Community Care wants to hear about examples of good
  practice (as well as what’s going wrong with the system). Email us
  at comcare.news@rbi.co.uk or
  write to Community Care, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton,
  Surrey, SM2 5AS.