Community care for late adolescents

This paper describes supportive accommodation for late adolescents in Cambridge provided by the Castle Project in conjunction with the Young People's Psychiatric Service. It outlines the characteristics of young people referred to the Project over the first years of its existence, their lengths of stay and next moves, and suggests that there are members of two groups, those with schizophrenic-type disorders and those with pronounced antisocial behaviour, who present long-term problems of care and accommodation and whose needs are not yet catered for appropriately.