Section 16 (1) of the Correctional Services Act (CSA),111 of 1998, as amended, states that: “The Department may provide correction, development and care programmes and services even when not required to do so by this Act”, and in Section 41 of the Act, it provides, under subsection “Treatment, development and support services. (1) The Department must provide or give access to as full a range of programmes and activities, including needs-based programmes as is practicable to meet the educational and training needs of sentenced offenders”.
Children offenders are children aged between 14-17 years of age. This category of offenders are given the opportunity to access formal education programmes. The following formal education programmes are offered to all offenders: -
The department is also rendering needs based rehabilitative programmes to child offenders by Social Workers among other professionals.
The following programmes and services were rendered to sentenced children, including parolees, probationers and children in remand detention for the Financial Year 2021/2022 by Social Workers.
Programmes and services |
Sentenced Children |
Remand Children |
|
Correctional Centres |
Community Corrections |
||
Substance Abuse |
3 |
1 |
5 |
Life-Skills |
25 |
16 |
20 |
Marriage and Family Care |
25 |
17 |
18 |
Sexual Offender |
3 |
7 |
0 |
Anger Management, |
9 |
4 |
6 |
Orientation Treatment |
0 |
2 |
0 |
Cool and fit for life |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Parenting |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Supportive Services |
13 |
4 |
0 |
Trauma |
2 |
0 |
2 |
Assessment |
64 |
19 |
0 |
TOTAL |
145 |
71 |
51 |
NB: Some child offenders attended multiple programmes |
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