Ms Ita Burke:

We have been very involved with youth projects and sports organisations. We place female offenders in individual placements - for example, in many of the charity shops and meals on wheels units. The main point about these is that they are available in every community. If one does not have a community service supervisor, one can link in with another voluntary organisation. It is actually making a difference to that local community so it is repairing the harm. Therefore, it works very well.