Children's home report recommends Jersey's Greenfields be closed as a secure home
An independent report into Children's homes in Jersey has described Jersey's secure facility, Greenfields, as "neither efficient nor effective".The report, compiled by the Independent Children's Homes Association, recommends that Jersey should aim not to secure its children at all, based on the island's low levels of crime.Greenfields was built in 2006 and designed "as a secure unit in which to house children and young people under the youth justice system and those requiring secure welfare placements".
The report also recommends the facility be converted into a Resource Centre, providing short break services, education and therapeutic support.
The facility's aim would be to prevent admissions to residential care settings, by ensuring any placements made are based on "robust assessments and the exhaustion of alternative interventions".