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Each year in Britain we lock up 2,000 school age children.

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Vinney Green locks up both teenage boys and teenage girls.

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The kids no-one else can tame.

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Some of them are very difficult, very challenging.

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Some of them are very dangerous.

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Whether they are a danger to each other...

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They're making threats to kill everybody, threatening to stab all the bitches that work at the unit.

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..or a danger to themselves and sent here for their own protection.

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I happened to go into her bedroom this time and found

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that she'd actually put a ligature around her neck.

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Are you scared?

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They do need a rub of the head, just that motherly sort of touch.

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That might surprise some people but they are only children.

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Acts of violence committed by girls have doubled in the last four years.

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Jess is here because of her aggression.

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So I just went whack, hit my mother straight in the nose, broke her nose and cracked her cheekbone.

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The staff have got their work cut out to tame her anger.

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All I do is cry, cos I can't hit no-one..

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Fucking move out my way.

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Ruby has run wild throughout her childhood.

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Fuck your mum!

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Will her time at Vinney Green impact on her behaviour at all?

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What are you thinking when you start to get angry?

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I really want to fucking kill her.

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And at the bottom of the girls' pecking order is Stef, who is in Vinney Green for her own protection.

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This is the safest I've felt ever.

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Vinney Green is called a children's home,

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but for these girls it feels like a prison.

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In Britain the law says that children can be held responsible for their crimes.

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But are we locking the girls up

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because we fear them, or can time behind bars change them?

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Aaargh! I'm sorting this out for once and for all.

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The girls at Vinney Green live on a separate residential unit,

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known as Phase Two.

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The units are very different.

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The girls are very intense

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and very demanding, very bitchy with one another.

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And you don't tend to get that with the boys.

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It can be volatile, very unpredictable

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A new arrival has unsettled the girls and the staff are keeping a careful eye on them.

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200 cameras monitor every move.

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Whenever we get new people in

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it's almost like they've got to re-establish their hierarchy.

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It's completely like a pressure cooker and you know it's bubbling away and it's just going to blow.

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When a critical incident kicks off

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it takes five staff members to restrain two girls.

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They're separated and taken to their rooms to calm down.

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We've got a particular young person

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who is really testing the boundaries of the staff over here at the moment.

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The new arrival, Ruby, is a 15-year-old traveller.

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Ruby is a little bit wild.

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She struggles to fit

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into the boundaries and routine of life at Vinney Green.

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Damage to the door. That's just criminal damage, as far as I'm concerned.

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You don't own the unit, Ruby. One more time and you'll be in your room, love.

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-Do you think I care?

-Do you think I care?

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Staff are still working out

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how to get her to obey the unit's strict regime

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Stop pushing people around, Ruby. You don't own the unit.

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-Neither do you.

-Sorry?

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Neither do you.

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No, but I'm in charge. I'm in charge of you.

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-All right? Get used to it.

-My father.

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Your father's not here, is he?

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Ruby is pushing the boundaries big time,

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as regarding pushing past staff, telling staff, "open the door,

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"do this, do that, I want this, I want that."

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And she's now refusing to come out of her room.

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What about the groups?

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Are they all OK together?

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No problems with Jazmine, no problems with Ryan...

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Although she made threats to stab the teacher yesterday in cooking.

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So her attitude's been quite badly lately.

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Jessica is again just pushing the boundaries a little bit, verbally.

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RADIO: 'Andy, are you receiving?'

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Bear with me two secs. Yeah, receiving.

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Did you see me when I came in?

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Jess has had two months to secure top spot in phase two.

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She likes holding court in the canteen.

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I'd kill somebody if they pissed me off so much,

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I'd fucking just put a bullet in their head.

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Do the crime do the time, innit?

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She's established herself in lots of ways at the top of the pecking order.

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Because of her personality and her whole persona,

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she's at the centre of whatever goes in in phase two.

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I hate that, tall girls being really skinny.

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-It just looks fucking stupid.

-Thanks.

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You ain't tall though.

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Charlie is a 17-year-old aspiring beautician.

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She's been in the unit a month longer than Jess.

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From the beginning they've been in competition.

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I don't get along with girls, I fuckin' hate them.

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They're mouthy little fuckers.

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Oh, fuck's sake!

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Usually other young people that nominate them,

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"You're the strongest, you're the strongest, you're top dog here."

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You will always get that, even with a group of eight young girls.

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-Are you intimidated by me?

-No.

-Are you scared of me?

-No.

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Jess is a very angry young lady.

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That anger has manifested itself

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by Jess being very violent in her community.

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I'll fucking give her one of them.

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Aaaargh!

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Fuck you.

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Jess has a long history of substance abuse and violence.

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I started drinking,

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and like, if anyone said to me, like, "Oh, shut up!"

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I'd be like, "Oh, why don't you shut up?"

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And then start an argument, and we'd just fight or something.

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I try and walk away,

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but if it does come to it I ain't going to stand there.

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Morning.

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The kids are locked up between nine at night and seven in the morning.

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After that, every waking minute is structured and supervised.

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For many this is the first time

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they've actually had to go to school.

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Some young people have struggled at some point in mainstream school

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and they fall a little bit between the cracks in the system.

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Doing classes together

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is the only time the girls can hang out with the boys.

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The maximum number in a class is four.

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This intensive teaching is expensive, but necessary.

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We don't group them by ability or age.

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We group them first by, will they get on

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and be able to do their work with those other people in the group?

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If they don't get on, nobody does any work at all.

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Fuckin' hell, I'm getting a headache.

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You went through loads of people yesterday you wanted to be with.

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-No, I said who I wanted it to be...

-I didn't see that.

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I even told you, Ben and...

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The girls are always demanding to change groups, and Jess is used

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to getting her own way, even if it means taking on the headteacher.

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-Who I wanted to be with.

-I don't know, I just got a long list.

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-Go through...

-A long list?

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-Can you change my group, please?

-I already changed your group.

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Invariably, I come in half seven in the morning and find out that somebody had a fight with somebody

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and they can't be in a group with that person.

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-Paul, change my group!

-Not now!

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The minute I think it's settled, it's not.

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What was up with Ruby, why didn't she want to be...?

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She just didn't want to be in that group, that's all.

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Her take on it was, "I told you I wanted to change and you haven't changed me."

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No, I haven't, you're right. All I'm doing is being stubborn with Ruby,

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on purpose, that's all I'm doing.

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We'll see who gives in first.

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But you're the one who's choosing out.

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You're the one that's choosing...

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Ruby, you're the one that's choosing out of it, OK?

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Value Added Tax is charged at a rate of 17.5%.

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-Seventeen and a half, basically, yeah?

-Yeah.

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Some girls get extra tuition.

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It's Lyn's job to spot those with potential,

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and she's trying to get Jess to sit her GCSEs.

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Divide by 100...

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Jess has actually got quite a lot going for her,

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and if we can actually get that across to her

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and give her informed choices,

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get her to make the right choices,

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she can turn it around.

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Her turbulent lifestyle has meant that, up until now,

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she has struggled with education.

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I was like just the class clown and I beat my maths teacher up.

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She gripped me in my arm, and I said "Don't grip me cos I will hit you."

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And she just gripped me again and I punched her.

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Then I put her arm in the door and slammed the door.

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When they told me I was suspended, I just laughed, I did.

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I thought, "Sound."

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I fuckin' hated the school, anyway.

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Although most of the girls on the unit have a history of violence,

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they also have the usual teenage hang-ups.

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Jess is no exception.

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I've put on two stone and I'm hoping to lose it by the time I get out.

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I've put on two stone in two months and a week.

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You get to go to the gym and the astro,

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but then that really ain't helping once a week, is it?

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The only running I do is running from the police.

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Jess may have issues with her weight,

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but she's still got admirers on the unit.

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Have you got a girlfriend?

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Kind of, but I haven't met her yet.

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Kind of, but you haven't met her yet.

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Course you've met me, Ryan, I'm sitting next to you.

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He's got more chance of the Pope shitting in his hand.

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But why do you think he likes you?

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I don't know, everyone likes me, don't they?

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There does seem to be a few friendships developing

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between the people on Phase One and on Phase Two.

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They call it linking, which is a very funny terminology,

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but what people have to understand

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is that very hormonal teenager that we are dealing with.

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It's something that we would not encourage.

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Physical contact would not be allowed at all.

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The staff keep a watch out for signs of who,

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at the moment, is linking with who.

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-What are you doing with that hand there?

-Resting it on my knee.

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Well, it looks dodgy from here, that's all.

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Looks really dodgy from here.

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But that doesn't stop them sneaking love letters

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whenever they get the chance.

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The only place where children are not monitored by CCTV

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is their bedrooms.

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If the daily search turns up a letter up that goes too far,

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it will be confiscated.

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Craig, have you read any of their letters?

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Oh, is this one we've confiscated?

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-Yeah.

-"I love you. I can't wait to see you, baby,

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"so I can xxxxx.

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"Do you love me, yes, or no?

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"I want you in my room, baby, do you want me in yours?

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"Yes, or no?"

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But the rules of the unit are that the kids are never allowed

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in each other's bedrooms.

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So relationships are always played out in public.

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Yeah, and you're also touching her and you need to stop.

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Charlie is linking with the top dog on the boys' unit.

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The staff are worried this could cause problems amongst the girls.

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The young person that Charlie is linking with

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has quite a big status in Phase One, has a certain amount of kudos.

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I'm guessing that there is a lot of jealousy going on.

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Everyone's complaining about Charlie, what they're like in the lesson.

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They do, they hold hands and everything, it does my fucking...

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Jess has got used to being the centre of attention,

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but Charlie's success with the boys

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has made their conflict more intense.

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Staff have heard that Jess plans to attack her rival.

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At the staff handover

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the Deputy Manager reports on the latest threat.

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We've got a feeling that Jess doesn't know what a bully is.

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She has no concept of what bullying is or isn't.

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I mean, Charlie's mum's on the phone all the time, so if Jess does attack Charlie,

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what does that look like? As if we haven't done anything about it.

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So we've split the groups up, we're taking Jess five minutes late to school.

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If she asks why, "It's because you made threats towards Charlie."

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Everything does change. Even a week is enough to completely change the dynamics of a group.

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What would happen in a normal school, where they'd have an argument,

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a little fight, but it gets calmed down.

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Here the potential for it to be more serious is there. So rather than give them the chance,

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which may be not right, we take them out of the groups and we make the decisions for them, basically.

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Tensions are running high in Phase Two.

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When an emergency alarm goes off in the residential area, all available staff respond.

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You're just trying to get there as quick as possible.

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It's frustrating that you can't run directly.

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There's all these doors to open and close behind you.

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You're worried that somebody's being injured. That there's two children fighting or something.

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You never know what you're going to run into, really.

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We've got a young person who is on five minute checks, which means

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we just check their room every five minutes.

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I went into her room and found that she'd actually put a ligature around her neck.

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A 14-year-old girl with a history of self harm has recently arrived on the unit.

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She was red in the face, but she hadn't tied it on, it was just around her neck.

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She had that just wrapped around her neck basically.

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A headband, actually, yeah.

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-'Hello?'

-Hi, Andy, is everything OK over there?

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'Yeah, we're just dealing with Steph, she had a ligature around her neck.

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'Lizzie's with her at the moment trying to talk to her.'

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Do we know if she's got any other headbands?

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'I'll do that in a second, I don't want to search her room while she's in there.'

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No, obviously not. Why don't you see if she wants some fresh air, and then try and get the room searched.

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-'No worries.'

-All right, mate. Thanks.

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Self harm is more common with the females, ligatures especially.

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This new young person that's come, she's just started to do that.

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Steph is in Vinney Green because she's a danger to herself.

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She's never been in trouble with the authorities.

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I've just spent the last hour just sitting and talking to her, trying

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to see if she wants to speak about it or maybe see the psychologist.

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Stephanie hasn't been with us for very long, but when you know their story,

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you know their history

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and you can see their going through a hard time,

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it definitely does affect you.

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But that's all part of the job, I suppose.

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I came to Vinney Green for running away from different foster placements.

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I usually just ran wherever.

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I just kept running till someone stopped me.

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I kept thinking that running away would get rid of my problems, and

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I just was quite scared and I didn't know what to do.

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The first time I self harmed was about two months before I came into care.

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People have a load of emotions and have a lot going on, and this is the only way to get rid of it.

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Cos sometimes, when you hurt yourself, it gets rid of the pain for a while

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because you concentrate on a different pain.

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We have young people here that have offended,

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and we have young people here that are on welfare.

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The one thing, perhaps, they've both got in common is they're both damaged, for whatever reason.

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A lot of the young people that we keep in Vinney Green, their family backgrounds aren't all that perfect,

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and it's almost they have to follow the family trait of being locked up, they think that is the norm.

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Ruby has been in trouble from an early age.

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When Ruby leaves Vinney Green, she will go and stay with her nan.

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She is the most stable influence in her life.

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Ruby is the sort of person who'd rather be on a camp,

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if you know what I mean?

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On a site, wouldn't she?

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As soon as me mum got the house, she went up to

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the site in Southampton where our people stays.

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She don't go with strangers or nothing, it's all our relations, our cousins, or aunts and uncles.

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We always know where Ruby is,

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all the time, we'll always know where she is, and we know she's safe.

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She's a bit like her dad, he's very wild, wasn't he, Chamaine?

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Yeah, he's very outgoing.

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-Outgoing all the time.

-And so is our mother, as well.

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SHE SQUEALS

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Ruby's behaviour is still as inappropriate as it was on the day she arrived, two months ago.

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And the staff are still struggling to control her.

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Ruby, stop it.

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Ruby get your hands off me.

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Ruby, get away from the door.

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Shirley, can you not fool with that?

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SHOUTING

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If you want to go out, fine.

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You need some time out, for the moment...

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'Ruby doesn't particularly like working very much.'

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you probably saw her swearing at me, being quite rude to me,

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and at some points actually physically going for me.

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Concerned for her safety, Corrine presses her alarm,

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which alerts other members of staff that she needs help.

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'It can get your heart racing, but I try to stay in control because that reassures the other young'

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people in the room that they're safe as well and they're not in danger.

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So, I want you to think about a time when you got really angry and what you did.

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The focus of the unit's work with Ruby is around this aggressive behaviour.

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I want you to think about what happens when you start to get angry,

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when you're really angry and when you start to calm down.

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Which box you can think about...

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It's Ruby's weekly session with her key-worker.

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How your body feels, what are you thinking when you start to get angry?

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-You're annoyed?

-Yeah.

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-I'll write it, you say it, yeah?

-Stressed...

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Ruby, please don't do that.

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-So when you're coming down from getting angry, what do you do?

-Dunno.

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-You start feeling better, don't you? Getting calmer...

-I'm looking at my tits.

0:21:320:21:37

So, do you think this was the best way to deal with it?

0:21:510:21:54

-Do you deal with it in the right way?

-Yeah.

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We go through the emotions of different situations,

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talk through how the young people feel, emotional health.

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She loves me.

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Hmmm.

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Anger is an issue which a lot of young people have here.

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Often it's not being able to control their anger that's got them into trouble in the first place.

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Through Jess's stay here, we will try to help her manage her anger.

0:22:230:22:29

-She really struggles with channelling it into any other emotion.

-Come on, Lyn.

0:22:290:22:35

What's your relationship like with your mum?

0:22:350:22:37

It's gone better since I've been in here, because like me and

0:22:370:22:40

my mother we always used to fight, I used to beat her up, my father used to come and have a go at me.

0:22:400:22:45

I used to beat him up... Like I bit a chunk out of his arm last year.

0:22:450:22:48

So what makes you that angry, what do they do?

0:22:480:22:51

I'm an angry person.

0:22:510:22:53

My father can get angry and my mother can get angry, and my older

0:22:530:22:57

brother, he's proper angry like, and he don't give a shit for no-one.

0:22:570:23:01

So do you feel like you can't control it?

0:23:010:23:04

Not really, because like,

0:23:040:23:06

if my mother pissed me off, she'd come up to me trying to like...

0:23:060:23:09

Like once I went whack, hit my mother straight on the nose, broke her nose and cracked her cheek-bone.

0:23:090:23:15

When she got a mood on, we can all look out and she wouldn't care.

0:23:190:23:25

I think they should have just put her away sooner,

0:23:250:23:28

I do. Not because I'm being horrible,

0:23:280:23:31

because I love Jess to bits and she knows it.

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Or make her go to a drug rehabilitation, because the

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only trouble Jessica got into was when she was drunk or drugged up.

0:23:360:23:41

While growing up in the Welsh Valleys, Jess terrorised her

0:23:410:23:45

home town, and her family often bore the brunt of her aggression.

0:23:450:23:49

She'd just come towards us with a knife.

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So we slammed the door shut holding our hand like this against the door, because she's a big girl.

0:23:530:23:59

The knife came through the door. I was white.

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She's got no life in her eyes, when she starts there's no life there, is there?

0:24:020:24:06

-Valium, Jessica was on, and cannabis.

-And ketamine.

0:24:060:24:11

I didn't know how to help her, none of us did.

0:24:110:24:14

I said to you, "move my group, I'm fed up with being in this group and you keep me in here."

0:24:140:24:19

Jess has had no access to drugs for three months now.

0:24:190:24:23

I do wanna hit him,

0:24:230:24:25

and if I do hit him it ain't my fault, it's all his fault for not fuckin' changing me.

0:24:250:24:29

Trying to control her temper is taking its toll in a different way.

0:24:290:24:35

I think Jess is very highly stressed and I think she puts on a massive, massive front for other people.

0:24:390:24:45

I've walked out of here and she's sat out there and refuses to speak to me.

0:24:450:24:49

And the other girls have gone and you say, "Come on then, what's the matter?"

0:24:490:24:53

And she'll just bursts into tears. She wants to look like she's all

0:24:530:24:57

powerful but behind it she's an upset girl, same as anyone else.

0:24:570:25:01

She still has major, major anger issues, though.

0:25:010:25:05

There is an atmosphere on the girls' unit.

0:25:090:25:12

Jess and the others are locked in their rooms while staff deal with another Steph situation.

0:25:120:25:18

Often we've had to cut ligatures off Stephanie and restrain her to keep her safe.

0:25:180:25:26

When a young person is self harming and putting their lives in danger, we have to go in and do something.

0:25:280:25:34

For her own personal protection we've had to strip the room of

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a lot of her own personal items, a lot of her clothing.

0:25:390:25:42

But the girl is still very low.

0:25:420:25:45

There were issues with her doing ligatures again this morning.

0:25:450:25:49

Until she changes her behaviour, unfortunately it's going to be quite a bare room for the time being.

0:25:490:25:54

Being locked in their rooms for nearly an hour is building resentment against Steph.

0:26:030:26:08

Some find it particularly difficult.

0:26:100:26:13

I said to Steph, "I'll fucking strangle you with razor wire if you don't fucking shut up."

0:26:130:26:18

Do you think that helpful?

0:26:180:26:19

She goes in her room trying to strangle herself, right.

0:26:210:26:24

I'd give her my shoelaces if she wanted it as well.

0:26:240:26:27

You don't need to get involved.

0:26:270:26:28

Been in that room for at least an hour when she's kicking off and I fucking go mad in my room.

0:26:280:26:33

This place gets me so frustrated. I always get upset with myself.

0:26:330:26:36

I go in my room and fucking smash my room up because I'm upset.

0:26:360:26:40

Don't smash your room up. That's not going to solve anything, it's not going to change anything.

0:26:400:26:45

You see how upset you are now?

0:26:470:26:50

Well, other people get like that but they take it to the next degree, yeah.

0:26:500:26:55

-This is all I do, cry and cry and cry.

-It's horrible, isn't it?

0:26:550:26:58

It's cos I can't hit no-one.

0:26:580:27:00

That's good, don't hit anybody.

0:27:000:27:03

Look at you, you are getting yourself in a right state.

0:27:040:27:08

You're going down and down and down.

0:27:080:27:10

You don't need it. Jess, you are better than this, you know that.

0:27:100:27:13

Keep with it.

0:27:130:27:15

'Jess is not feeling too good about herself at the moment.'

0:27:170:27:20

Jess has put on some weight unfortunately since she's been here, so that's not helping her, really.

0:27:200:27:26

How long have you been here for?

0:27:260:27:28

While just plays with the camera, the senior care officer, Charlotte,

0:27:280:27:33

takes her chance to tell her how she really sees it.

0:27:330:27:35

I always like to treat all of you with respect

0:27:350:27:39

and treat you without any judgment as to what you've done.

0:27:390:27:43

I believe that none of you lot were born bad.

0:27:430:27:46

I believe that you were all born innocent babies, yeah.

0:27:460:27:50

And that things that have happened in your life have made you the way you are at the moment.

0:27:500:27:56

Cos like my father has been in prison, one of the staff thinks I'm trying to live up to them.

0:27:580:28:03

But I ain't really, it's just, like...

0:28:030:28:06

Being in here has pissed me off.

0:28:060:28:08

You know, you've got a really good head on your shoulders.

0:28:080:28:11

You are very intelligent, you've got a lot of knowledge.

0:28:110:28:14

You've got a lot to say for yourself

0:28:140:28:17

but it's just usually said in the wrong way,

0:28:170:28:20

in an aggressive manner.

0:28:200:28:22

Be brave, Jess, and stop showing me this, "Grr", yeah?

0:28:220:28:26

Drop that front and show me what's really you.

0:28:260:28:29

Helping the young people build

0:28:310:28:34

up their self-confidence is one of Vinney Green's main aims.

0:28:340:28:38

Given different opportunities, some of these young people may well not end up in crime in the future.

0:28:380:28:45

So many of them have a lot of potential

0:28:450:28:48

that is never tapped into.

0:28:480:28:51

Divided by 25.

0:28:510:28:53

Jess is unusual. She's decided to knuckle down and prepare for her GCSEs.

0:28:560:29:01

But most of the kids here aren't at a level to sit any exams.

0:29:010:29:08

I don't know how to count.

0:29:080:29:09

Is it because it's got 50K and things like that...?

0:29:090:29:13

A lot of these young people have given up on school.

0:29:130:29:16

For some of them, they feel they are not going to achieve anything,

0:29:160:29:20

and that mainly is because they are of low academic ability.

0:29:200:29:25

Use the best word to finish each sentence.

0:29:260:29:28

You want to make all these sentences...

0:29:280:29:30

'Ruby isn't very good with reading at the moment.

0:29:300:29:33

'And when in a group, will not try.'

0:29:330:29:36

There you go. You're on your way.

0:29:360:29:37

She has spent little time at school in her 15 years and has a reading age of just seven.

0:29:370:29:44

But at last she is accepting some help.

0:29:440:29:46

Think of a good word to finish each sentence. You've got to think of your own word here.

0:29:460:29:51

-I like...

-I live in a...

0:29:510:29:54

How do you spell trailer?

0:29:550:29:57

T-R-A-I...

0:29:570:30:00

-Huh?

-A-I...

0:30:000:30:02

'If they are in a group, they fear failure, I think.

0:30:020:30:05

'So if they don't try,

0:30:050:30:08

'they don't fail.'

0:30:080:30:10

We do see that 99% of young people do improve on literacy and numeracy levels.

0:30:100:30:17

You see somebody who's very insecure in themself

0:30:170:30:21

and then they go out much more confident.

0:30:210:30:25

Confidence-building is not the only goal of Vinney Green.

0:30:300:30:35

They are trying to help them relate to others too.

0:30:350:30:37

-Do you live in a house or one of them things?

-One of them things.

0:30:370:30:41

What are they called?

0:30:410:30:43

You see these huts...?

0:30:430:30:46

This is the first time Jess has been away from the valleys.

0:30:460:30:49

What gets me, how it's only a white person can be racist.

0:30:510:30:55

If you're Black and a Blackie called you a pint of milk or

0:30:560:30:59

something like that, you can't do nothing about it.

0:30:590:31:03

It's all right for them to take the mickey out of us. They talk foreign,

0:31:030:31:07

-they could be calling us rotten.

-That's what wound Jessica up, because they were shouting at her.

0:31:070:31:11

-It just came to a head, didn't it?

-Yeah.

0:31:110:31:13

Jess is being given the opportunity to confront some tricky issues.

0:31:150:31:20

Her violence and racist behaviour has often got her into trouble.

0:31:220:31:26

I don't recognise racist nigger, see?

0:31:260:31:29

-I hate that word.

-Why?

-Because it's got so much history to it and was used in such abusive ways.

0:31:290:31:34

I know that some black people call each other it but I still hate that.

0:31:340:31:38

-Why?

-I just really...

0:31:380:31:39

So if someone black said to you, "What up, nigger?"

0:31:390:31:42

-You wouldn't like it?

-No.

0:31:420:31:44

I know it doesn't mean the same as if you said it to me.

0:31:440:31:47

-It's better than nignog. I'd rather nigger than nignog.

-I don't like either.

0:31:470:31:50

She says she's not racist, as a lot of racist people do.

0:31:500:31:53

So it's quite interesting to have the discussion because she knows I'm mixed race.

0:31:530:31:57

She even said to me that her dad would be OK with me because I'm pale.

0:31:570:32:01

There isn't supposed to be a black racist person, there's no such thing as a black racist.

0:32:010:32:06

-Anyone can be racist.

-When I called a black boy across my street a nigger, right,

0:32:060:32:10

because we were arguing, and he called me a milk bottle.

0:32:100:32:12

I said, "Yeah, shut up, you nigger."

0:32:120:32:15

I was about seven and the police came to my house because they heard me.

0:32:150:32:19

-You were seven?

-Seven, eight. I used to sing it out my window.

0:32:190:32:21

I'd say, "Eeny meeny miney mo, catch a nigger by his toe."

0:32:210:32:24

I used to sing that to him.

0:32:240:32:26

-Jess...

-Shut up, for fuck's sake!

0:32:260:32:30

You can have a sensible conversation with her but I think there are deep,

0:32:300:32:34

ingrained issues with her because of her background.

0:32:340:32:37

The Ku Klux Klan, they used to go beating up black people and tie them to a tree and light them on fire.

0:32:370:32:42

The reason they wore those hooded...

0:32:420:32:44

'Being here might be the first time she's seen black people in a positive way rather than negative.'

0:32:440:32:48

Tie a black person to a tree, knocks on the door that they live in and see him hanging, and they all run off.

0:32:480:32:54

It's important for her to have those conversations.

0:32:540:32:56

It's important she's got people like me and Gemma and the care staff

0:32:560:32:59

that aren't all white.

0:32:590:33:01

I think that being here, she might actually learn something.

0:33:010:33:04

I don't know, but she might.

0:33:040:33:06

I have a right to go into your room as a member of staff.

0:33:100:33:13

You ain't killing my cuddly toys.

0:33:140:33:17

Three months into her stay, Steph is stable enough to be given her belongings back.

0:33:170:33:22

-She's spent six weeks living in a bare room for her own safety.

-How about that little rabbit?

0:33:220:33:27

No! He's threatening to kill them.

0:33:270:33:31

-He won't kill them.

-Thank you.

0:33:310:33:33

This is the safest I've felt ever, nearly all my life.

0:33:330:33:39

I can't put myself in danger by running away because of the bars and all that.

0:33:390:33:44

It's secure and no one can get me whilst I'm in here.

0:33:440:33:48

Steph has not been attacked by Jess.

0:33:510:33:54

The girls on phase two have overcome their frustration

0:33:540:33:57

with her self-harming and have even accepted her as one of them.

0:33:570:34:01

When I first found out, when I came here, I was kind of scared.

0:34:010:34:04

But I sort of got used to it now cos at the end of the day

0:34:040:34:08

they are still people and they've still got feelings.

0:34:080:34:10

I struggle making friends at home and that, I've made more friends here than I have ever.

0:34:100:34:16

All the people round here are like family.

0:34:160:34:20

It's just amazing being here.

0:34:200:34:23

If I could stay here I would definitely want to stay forever.

0:34:240:34:28

Sometimes our job is crap.

0:34:280:34:30

I'm going to have a key work session with Stephanie now.

0:34:320:34:35

I have to break some pretty bad news to her, really.

0:34:350:34:39

Hello, you, all right?

0:34:390:34:41

Let's go and have a chat. We are going to go into the little TV room.

0:34:410:34:45

I'm going to get straight to the point.

0:34:450:34:48

Not very good news, you are not going to be very happy.

0:34:480:34:51

Social Services doesn't feel that you necessarily fit the criteria

0:34:510:34:56

to stay in secure accommodation, so you have to go on Thursday.

0:34:560:35:00

-You're joking?

-I'm not. Everybody is feeling that this isn't necessarily the best thing that could happen,

0:35:000:35:06

but that is the decision.

0:35:060:35:08

So talk to me.

0:35:120:35:14

Tell me what you think.

0:35:150:35:17

-Hey?

-The whole point was to stop me from running and it's just going

0:35:230:35:28

-to end up happening again. I've already said that to them.

-I know.

0:35:280:35:31

I thought they'd go by what I say.

0:35:330:35:36

At least take it into consideration, but they don't.

0:35:360:35:39

They haven't.

0:35:390:35:41

It's just too soon.

0:35:440:35:45

You can't...

0:35:450:35:47

It's all being rushed.

0:35:470:35:50

It's even worse because it's just...too soon.

0:35:500:35:53

I just don't know.

0:35:550:35:57

You don't know.

0:35:570:35:59

Are you scared? OK.

0:35:590:36:02

Come on.

0:36:020:36:04

Scott, have you seen them?

0:36:110:36:12

Is it OK to go to bedroom one?

0:36:140:36:16

'Yeah, no problem.'

0:36:160:36:18

Some of the girls have threatened to attack Ruby, so Lyn is moving her

0:36:180:36:22

around the unit separately for her own protection.

0:36:220:36:26

Scott, the senior on phase two,

0:36:260:36:29

is aware of the conflict with two other young people

0:36:290:36:34

that are being educated in phase two at the moment.

0:36:340:36:37

He just warned us to go the other way.

0:36:370:36:40

Ruby has applied to get out of Vinney Green

0:36:400:36:43

and has had a letter saying her application has been received.

0:36:430:36:46

Want me to read it to you?

0:36:460:36:49

And her case manager has added some personal advice.

0:36:490:36:53

He's put a star there. You need to make sure your behaviour is good

0:36:530:36:57

and you do not get into trouble or get any sanctions before then.

0:36:570:37:02

That's a little note from...

0:37:020:37:03

But Ruby has become an easy target for the other girls,

0:37:130:37:16

who are trying to provoke her into fighting and losing this chance

0:37:160:37:19

of getting out.

0:37:190:37:21

You're doing the right thing by choosing to keep yourself away from that situation so nothing happens.

0:37:290:37:34

And that's a really good choice. Well done, you.

0:37:340:37:37

It's critical that the staff keep on top of who is planning to attack who.

0:37:370:37:42

Jess and Ruby were bully on Tuesday, and now it's changed again.

0:37:420:37:47

-In two days.

-Yeah.

0:37:470:37:49

I spoke to Ruby this morning and said, "Can you now see both sides of the situation?

0:37:510:37:56

-"How you feel being in that vulnerable situation."

-What did she say?

-"Yeah..."

0:37:560:38:01

She kind of recognises that now.

0:38:010:38:04

Ruby is not the only girl feeling vulnerable.

0:38:080:38:11

For Steph, the downside of getting better is that she'll have to leave.

0:38:110:38:16

But she's requested to stay for another four weeks.

0:38:160:38:19

-That decision is imminent.

-How you doing, Michelle?

0:38:190:38:22

Four week extension, yeah.

0:38:240:38:26

That's good news for her anyway. All right. Bye now.

0:38:280:38:31

Some people will say that we're pandering to her needs, but it's not a bad idea to have

0:38:360:38:41

another four weeks to get your head into the fact that you're going to be leaving this institution

0:38:410:38:46

where you are safe, you are secure, you are basically looked after 24/7.

0:38:460:38:53

They can flourish and be nurtured here and grow

0:38:530:38:55

and they want a bit more of it. They don't want to be going.

0:38:550:38:58

We do get that a lot, the young people don't want to leave.

0:38:580:39:01

Which is nice for us!

0:39:030:39:04

It's a good thing, not a bad thing.

0:39:060:39:09

Steph's stay at Vinney Green is not dependent on good behaviour.

0:39:120:39:16

But for some, it's the key to getting out early.

0:39:180:39:22

When I'm sitting in here, I think of what I could be doing when I'm out.

0:39:240:39:29

Just wishing that I wasn't here, to be honest.

0:39:310:39:35

Although it's a secure unit, families are encouraged to visit.

0:39:360:39:41

And most come once a week.

0:39:410:39:45

I love you.

0:39:470:39:48

The visits are always monitored on CCTV and some will be supervised by staff.

0:39:480:39:54

Got a visit.

0:39:540:39:55

My mother and that. Right.

0:39:570:40:00

Jess is trusted to see her family alone.

0:40:000:40:03

Despite all they've been through with her, they come as often as they can.

0:40:030:40:07

I don't know if you tried cooking, Jess.

0:40:070:40:09

I can't cook!

0:40:090:40:11

You put eggs in the microwave.

0:40:110:40:14

'I look up to my mother in a way because she weren't naughty

0:40:140:40:16

'when she was a kid, and I wish I was like that.'

0:40:160:40:19

Her family have encouraged her to sit her exams.

0:40:250:40:29

You have to make my arse look small on this.

0:40:290:40:33

I want to pass them because when I go to college I can do my A-levels or something.

0:40:330:40:38

And just show all my friends that I can do it, and my mother that I can.

0:40:380:40:43

I'm so proud of her.

0:40:430:40:45

Up until she went in there, she wouldn't have sat them.

0:40:450:40:48

I never knew that.

0:40:480:40:50

Fingers crossed.

0:40:510:40:53

-Good luck, Jess.

-You all right?

0:40:530:40:55

Jess has applied to go to college once she leaves.

0:41:120:41:16

But she needs to get out early in time to enrol.

0:41:160:41:19

Having early release means a lot to me because I've got my application

0:41:190:41:23

for college on the 11th and I get out on the 8th.

0:41:230:41:27

If I miss that, I'll have to start next year, like.

0:41:270:41:31

It's going to piss me right off as well.

0:41:310:41:34

If I don't have my early, I swear I'm fucking going to go mad,

0:41:340:41:38

I won't even look at my GCSE results, there'll be no point.

0:41:380:41:41

There's no guarantee that her early departure will be approved.

0:41:430:41:47

In Jess' situation, it takes a little bit more consideration as to whether they grant it.

0:41:470:41:52

I think she thinks that she may well not get it.

0:41:520:41:56

She understands that it's not necessarily a matter of course.

0:41:560:41:59

I think that will be disappointing for her.

0:41:590:42:02

But Steph knows for sure that she's only got two weeks left.

0:42:060:42:10

She's been doing well, but the staff have received

0:42:100:42:13

some worrying news about her older brother who has severe disabilities.

0:42:130:42:18

He's been in hospital for several weeks.

0:42:180:42:19

Apparently they rang last night and spoke to Abbi

0:42:190:42:24

and his condition is critical and he's on a life-support machine.

0:42:240:42:28

They don't think he's going to last all that long.

0:42:280:42:31

Because the situation is so serious,

0:42:320:42:35

Steph is being allowed out of the unit with a care worker

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to visit her brother in hospital.

0:42:380:42:40

The staff are so worried about her mental state when she returns

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that they are searching her room for anything she could harm herself with.

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Things like this that shouldn't be in here.

0:42:520:42:55

A piece of plastic.

0:42:550:42:58

Exactly.

0:42:580:42:59

For self-harm, etc.

0:42:590:43:01

We'll take that.

0:43:010:43:03

Just taking precautions really.

0:43:030:43:06

Like these bits.

0:43:060:43:09

Probably off some clothes that she's snapped off.

0:43:090:43:12

We do room searches anyway.

0:43:120:43:15

However, because of the recent news she's had, we want to particularly make sure that the room is safe.

0:43:150:43:22

I'm just going to take a paperclip.

0:43:220:43:24

She can just open it up and she could use it to self-harm or anything else.

0:43:240:43:29

Ruby has avoided any fights since she applied to get out early.

0:43:360:43:41

At the weekly senior staff meeting they've received a decision.

0:43:430:43:46

Ruby's early release application has been approved.

0:43:460:43:53

She's going home to Nan's.

0:43:530:43:57

We've got a couple of weeks left to see this through

0:43:580:44:01

and see what's worked really. Finish off on a positive note.

0:44:010:44:03

She's much better in school.

0:44:030:44:05

She's much calmer.

0:44:050:44:07

And simply being forced to do lessons one-on-one has transformed her learning dramatically.

0:44:070:44:13

She's gone up two years on her maths.

0:44:130:44:16

That's fantastic.

0:44:160:44:17

-That's a good result.

-She's done quite well really.

0:44:170:44:21

Andy!

0:44:210:44:22

# Shout whenever

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# And I'll be there

0:44:240:44:25

# You are my love

0:44:250:44:27

# You are my heart

0:44:270:44:28

# And we will never ever, ever, ever be apart... #

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I don't know the rest.

0:44:330:44:35

Tomorrow, Friday?

0:44:350:44:37

'I'm sorry, I thought you said Saturday.'

0:44:370:44:40

No, tomorrow.

0:44:400:44:41

The thing is, Ruby, how are we going to get you back?

0:44:410:44:45

Kathleen. You sure?

0:44:470:44:50

All right then, babe, I love you. See you on...

0:44:500:44:52

I won't be seeing you on Friday because they go on holiday, I'll see you when I get back, yeah.

0:44:520:44:56

Bye, babe.

0:44:560:44:58

I hope that she has changed...

0:44:580:45:00

For her sake.

0:45:000:45:02

She's getting older, she's not getting younger.

0:45:020:45:04

-Older and wiser, I hope.

-She's only a baby.

0:45:040:45:06

You got married when you were 16.

0:45:060:45:08

Yeah, but it doesn't matter,

0:45:080:45:10

she's still only a child. She's only 15, she is only young.

0:45:100:45:13

She knows what she's doing but she's just wild, she's still only a baby.

0:45:130:45:17

She shouldn't be in there really, should she?

0:45:170:45:20

While you've been in here, what do you think you've learnt?

0:45:200:45:23

I think you've learnt a lot more on the social skills side of things as well.

0:45:280:45:33

Ruby will be missed.

0:45:360:45:38

But then you move on.

0:45:390:45:41

It will be a very slow, gradual process.

0:45:440:45:46

I thought so.

0:45:460:45:48

Fade into...?

0:45:560:45:58

Steph spent three days and nights at her brother's bedside.

0:46:080:46:13

Tragically, he passed away.

0:46:130:46:15

I got on with my brother more than I did anyone.

0:46:150:46:20

I don't think it's properly hit me yet.

0:46:200:46:22

I haven't really shown any emotions about it.

0:46:220:46:26

Despite the staff's concern about her welfare, there is no option of extending her stay a second time.

0:46:260:46:32

And a week later she has to leave.

0:46:320:46:35

She's had two things to deal with.

0:46:350:46:36

She's had the move from here and then her brother dying.

0:46:360:46:40

It's too much, she's not robust enough to be able to deal

0:46:400:46:43

with one of those things really, let alone two,

0:46:430:46:46

which most, perhaps more robust people, would struggle with.

0:46:460:46:51

She's only 14, we have to remember that.

0:46:510:46:54

She's told staff she plans to run away at the first chance she gets

0:46:560:47:00

from the regular children's home she's being moved to.

0:47:000:47:03

I'm really proud of how well you've done. So just don't undo it all.

0:47:030:47:08

But I ain't going to this place.

0:47:080:47:10

You know what, if you get there just keep your head down for a while.

0:47:100:47:14

-It's in the countryside.

-Then you might

0:47:140:47:16

get moved on somewhere better.

0:47:160:47:18

-I ain't waiting.

-But if you run away there's no guarantee that you are going to come back here.

0:47:180:47:23

I'll be really sad to hear that you've run.

0:47:250:47:28

In you get, the sooner we get there the sooner we can get out.

0:47:280:47:32

-I don't want to go.

-You'll be fine.

0:47:320:47:34

You'll be OK.

0:47:340:47:36

'She's going to try and get out of a window and she plans to run.'

0:47:360:47:41

You have to sit in the middle on this occasion.

0:47:410:47:44

Steph, we need you to move up.

0:47:440:47:47

You've got to move up.

0:47:470:47:48

She has to sit in the middle to prevent her from jumping from the car.

0:47:480:47:53

I know you don't want to but you have to.

0:47:530:47:56

There isn't any choice at the moment.

0:47:560:47:58

Can't drive with this leg hanging out because we might get stopped.

0:47:580:48:01

-Move over a bit, love.

-No!

0:48:010:48:04

Come on.

0:48:040:48:06

-In?

-Yeah.

0:48:080:48:10

It's upsetting, an upsetting start to the journey.

0:48:130:48:16

So hopefully she'll calm down.

0:48:180:48:19

She doesn't want her seatbelt on, they might have to go without it.

0:48:190:48:22

It was traumatic for her today.

0:48:270:48:28

It would have been nice if she could have got in the car

0:48:280:48:31

and went to her new placement.

0:48:310:48:33

It's not nice that she has to be physically restrained.

0:48:330:48:35

It's upsetting for them, me and upsetting for her mainly.

0:48:350:48:40

It's not a good start, is it, really.

0:48:400:48:42

Hello. How are you?

0:48:500:48:53

A decision has been made about whether Jess will be allowed to leave early.

0:48:530:48:57

You know you put your application in.

0:48:570:48:59

-Yeah.

-What they do is look at all the paperwork that has been sent in.

0:48:590:49:04

-Just tell me.

-The decision was...

0:49:040:49:09

-Yes.

-Ah-ha-ha!

0:49:090:49:13

Congratulations.

0:49:130:49:15

I'm going to start crying.

0:49:150:49:17

Are you pleased? Well done.

0:49:170:49:21

-I've only got two weeks left now.

-I know, read it, Jess.

0:49:230:49:27

Getting out early means she can enrol in college.

0:49:270:49:30

But this is dependent on her keeping her temper while she's here.

0:49:300:49:34

I haven't got my early.

0:49:340:49:37

It's all right, man.

0:49:370:49:39

I'm only joking, I have got it really.

0:49:400:49:43

Yeah.

0:49:430:49:45

I'm excited about her coming home in one way, then in the other it's anticipation.

0:49:460:49:53

14 days.

0:49:530:49:55

-Yeah.

-If she comes back out and she goes back down the drug road,

0:49:550:50:00

I'm not going to put up with it no more.

0:50:000:50:02

I'll have to kick her out because they don't tell you the effects

0:50:020:50:07

that drugs have on the other family members, like my son.

0:50:070:50:12

He never started talking

0:50:120:50:15

until Jess got locked away.

0:50:150:50:18

My street will be dreading it.

0:50:180:50:20

The street be dreading it now I'm out.

0:50:200:50:23

'I hope she's changed.

0:50:230:50:25

'I really do hope she's changed.'

0:50:250:50:28

All the best. Don't come back, yeah.

0:50:280:50:30

After four months, it's Ruby's turn to be let out.

0:50:310:50:35

If she breaks any of the rules on the outside, she could find herself back in secure accommodation.

0:50:370:50:44

-Just watching and waiting.

-With Ruby's nan on holiday,

0:50:440:50:48

her Auntie has agreed to collect her from Vinney Green.

0:50:480:50:52

It's the cleaner. Are they here yet?

0:50:520:50:55

You've just got to be patient, they'll be here shortly.

0:50:550:50:57

But they're not here, it's 9 o'clock.

0:50:570:50:59

-I'm sure they are on their way.

-She's definitely left.

0:50:590:51:02

-How do you know?

-She's rung me.

0:51:020:51:04

-How do you know?

-Cos we all know.

-You are joking me.

0:51:040:51:09

OK, mate. Thanks very much.

0:51:120:51:15

That's it, isn't it?

0:51:150:51:17

Her Auntie's been pulled at Southampton in the car for not having tax,

0:51:170:51:21

so they haven't got any transport to come and pick her up.

0:51:210:51:24

-Ruby?

-Yeah. Reality is sometimes weirder than fiction.

0:51:240:51:30

With her Auntie's car stranded, Ruby is stuck at the unit.

0:51:300:51:36

I never thought poor Charlotte would be taking me.

0:51:360:51:39

If a child's family fail to pick them up, the staff will take them to an already agreed address.

0:51:390:51:44

Don't want to see you again. No going back in.

0:51:440:51:47

-Tell everyone I said goodbye.

-I will do. Take care of yourself.

0:51:470:51:51

We take them out of their environment, do what we can

0:51:510:51:53

with them and put them back in their environment. It's what they know.

0:51:530:51:56

And, actually, sadly,

0:51:560:52:00

the good work becomes undone.

0:52:000:52:03

Do you think you will change, do you think you'll go back to it?

0:52:060:52:09

I hope I change because I've done my GCSEs when I was in here and when I was out I wouldn't have done them.

0:52:090:52:15

So in here, it's a good thing being in here but a bad thing at the same time, if you get me.

0:52:150:52:20

Because my mother and that ain't happy that I'm in here but for me...

0:52:200:52:24

It's doing me some good. I've put on loads of weight, though.

0:52:240:52:26

-It's not all because of the food, I don't reckon, it's because I'm off all the drugs, isn't it?

-Possibly.

0:52:260:52:32

I was taking loads of drugs - powder, weed.

0:52:320:52:37

I used to sniff coke as well.

0:52:370:52:39

The advantage Jess has got his she was here and out of that for quite a long time, approaching six months.

0:52:390:52:46

And that she is a strong personality.

0:52:460:52:49

-You can call me fat.

-Are you pregnant?

0:52:490:52:52

Jess faces a final test of her temper just a week before she is due to leave.

0:52:540:52:59

Oh, yeah. Ha-ha(!)

0:53:010:53:03

All you can do is call me fat. I don't give a fuck if I'm fat.

0:53:030:53:06

Look at your fucking spot.

0:53:060:53:07

All you can say is "fat", it don't bother me being fat.

0:53:070:53:11

Try it, go on, hit me. Slap me in my face.

0:53:110:53:14

-I'm in here for fighting.

-So what?

0:53:140:53:17

She said , "I'm not going to fight with you because that's what I'm in here for."

0:53:170:53:21

What she meant was, "I'm trying to learn something."

0:53:210:53:23

Whether she would say that, that is what she meant.

0:53:230:53:25

She has definitely improved in the way she can control herself.

0:53:250:53:30

Fatty!

0:53:300:53:32

You fat, ugly, fat slut.

0:53:320:53:34

-Wanker.

-Your mum's got...

0:53:340:53:36

What did you say about my mother?

0:53:360:53:39

-What?

-What did you say about my mum?

0:53:390:53:41

I didn't say anything about your mother.

0:53:410:53:44

'She's certainly demonstrated that she can, not turn the other cheek,

0:53:440:53:47

'I don't think Jess is a turn the other cheek type of person, but walk away and show a bit more maturity.'

0:53:470:53:53

Goodbye!

0:53:560:53:58

The issue for Jess is who she mixes with when she leaves,

0:53:590:54:03

does she get involved in smoking the wrong things, or can she get on and turn things around and move forward?

0:54:030:54:09

She can go a long way and do a lot of things.

0:54:090:54:11

Watch out, I'm back.

0:54:180:54:20

My fags!

0:54:230:54:24

Look, Mum.

0:54:340:54:36

290, look.

0:54:360:54:39

-What?

-Mails.

0:54:390:54:41

Jess has got her mobile back.

0:54:410:54:43

It's been five months since she had any contact with her friends.

0:54:430:54:48

That's in Birmingham.

0:54:480:54:50

'Jess is going to be at home and quite bored.

0:54:500:54:54

'In the area that she lives there's lots of drug houses and she's really scared that she's going to end up

0:54:540:54:58

'going into one of those and using drugs.

0:54:580:55:02

'She doesn't want to behave like that anymore. She wants to start again.'

0:55:020:55:06

Look, this is what I mean. Why mail me about raves and that when I'm...

0:55:060:55:10

"Missing you, babes, can't wait for you to come out and have a sesh with me and the boys."

0:55:100:55:15

I'm not blind to think that everybody is going to turn round

0:55:170:55:20

and no one's ever going to commit a crime,

0:55:200:55:22

no one is ever going to come back again.

0:55:220:55:24

But I always think, you have to give somebody another chance.

0:55:240:55:27

You've got to keep going with them.

0:55:270:55:29

If somebody can get into a college programme or a school,

0:55:290:55:32

perhaps it's different to what they were doing before, perhaps it builds

0:55:320:55:36

on something that they learned by they were here, then there is opportunity to change it around.

0:55:360:55:41

But if not, then it's back to same old, same old.

0:55:410:55:45

Next... The last chance for the boys

0:56:210:56:24

who are growing up locked up and facing a lifetime in and out of prisons.

0:56:240:56:30

I don't lose control, I just choose to get angrier.

0:56:300:56:32

We all think we are bad but we know the truth, we're not bad.

0:56:320:56:36

Fuck the system.

0:56:360:56:38

By Christmas I'll be back inside.

0:56:380:56:41

It's just my life. Trouble.

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