CHAPTER 5 VIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES OF CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY b. Securing Employment or Training Many children focused on getting paid employment so that they could support themselves and not reoffend. ‘It would be good to know that they had a job on release’. (M/16-21/1:EEG) ‘Solicit help to find a job as a cleaning lady given that she is not educated’. (MF/1618/1:AFG) Others, who were not receiving any training, commented on the need for a planned programme in another institution: ‘At X, there will be made some centres to help former detainees with a job and for a period of three months with accommodation. So, they get used to the reintegration in society’. (M/15-17/1:EEG) ‘A training centre to host children after their release from detention should be created’. (MF/14-18/1:AFG) c. Supporting their Relationships with their Families and Outside World The majority of children identified the need for support from parents and families as important to enable them to re-integrate back into society. However, some children did not have families, or said that they did not want to go back to their families, as they were not safe places for them. ‘Contact the family and prepare for the reinsertion […] Re-establish parental ties, psychological support’. (M/16-18/1:AFG) ‘Step down unit when you are month before the end of sentence to be able to live normally and independent’. (M/17/1:WEOG) 102