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That community could have given up a hundred times, because the problems of trying to get people to work together make it almost impossible to get funding.
The critical point is that there should be a connection between people getting contact information and getting an appropriate response from the planning authority when it is contacted.
There is a problem in maintaining continuity of care for some people if they get a three-month contract, have to stop work for a few weeks and then get another three-month contract.
We must provide good activities for them—both organised youth activities and facilities such as youth cafes, which provide good bases for informal activities and for youth projects such as Streetwork.
That fragmentation can result in a prisoner from one area getting a reasonably good service from criminal justice social work while a prisoner from another area in the same penal establishment gets no service because of the policy of the local authority area that they come from.
There is a limit to how much those across-the-board exercises can deliver—it gets increasingly hard as one makes efficiencies and as the various prisons and directorates at headquarters get as near as we are going to get.