Quotes ?

SafeCare is celebrating 20 years of successful practice and service to “troubled young people” throughout the UK.

We are mindful at all times to review each task, to be aware of new methods and techniques but SafeCare will never deviate from it’s commitment to the secure and compassionate care of the young people. As with all individuals we are influenced by our previous experiences and the quotations listed here have influenced the SafeCare managers and in their creation of the Company policy.

The following quotation comes from the very first report from the UK’s first Reformatory – founded in Saltley, Birmingham in 1852.

"The crimes of these lads are the effects of a cause for which they are not altogether responsible". Mr. Ellis. Head of Saltley Reformatory.

“Now I say that if a boy who has from infancy seen and heard nothing but vice, and acquired every bad habit, if this boy will try and give this all up, it must be an extraordinary effort and sacrifice on his part. We make it the boy’s own act to reform himself. I can conceive of no reformation like that which a boy or man effects himself”. Mr. Ellis. 24th January 1854.

“"They all meet weekly in a committee of self-management, when they frequently impose severer rules on themselves than "Gaffer" (as they call Mr Ellis) would think of imposing upon them; of course Mr Ellis has a controlling influence in their deliberations'. The use of this arrangement consists in forming the habit of consulting with and for others, which is an essential means of overcoming that concentrated selfishness which is the main feature of any vicious life". From the Saltley Reformatory Annual Report. 24th January 1854… Pre Y.J.B.