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We are a listening Executive—we try our best to respond to the pleas that are made to us and we will try our best to respond to that and other pleas, as appropriate.
We should do what we can in children's best interests at all times. For the most part, maintaining contact is in the child's best interests, unless good reasons exist for not doing that.
Scheduling extra stuff might be tricky, but we will do our best. I strongly agree with your recommendation about writing to the petitioner to address the issue of services and facilities for children with special needs.
Such a situation might arise because a school is performing particularly badly and the education authority wants to get the best support into the school quickly.
The conference will be an international practitioners' conference on the exchange of member states' best practice in dealing with difficult issues of youth crime and we are developing its programme with our partners.