I have been very interested in talking to people who work in residential units about how determined they are to try get children into the care of families. As they say to me repeatedly, children in residential care can breed problems between them. For example, it is all too easy for a child in a unit who has been abusing alcohol to encourage other children within the unit to get up to the same tricks as himself. When the child is dealing with perhaps 12 people per week in charge of him, it is much easier to bend things around than if he is in a domestic setting where there is a couple of parents to whom he has to report. They have a much better idea of what the child is doing.