P a g e | 68 Administrative Juvenile Training Centre in Maseru keeps boys separated from girls. When children leave JTC they do not have a criminal record. Progress Detention periods for children are capped at 3 years, no matter what their crime. Difficulties Girls have no detention centre and are instead kept with adult women. As previously mentioned, the Probations Unit is severely understaffed and under-skilled, rendering them largely ineffective in their role in juvenile justice and alternatives to detention. This makes Judges reluctant to sentence children to alternative forms of justice given that the strict supervision supposed to be imposed by Probation Officers will not be fulfilled. There are further no approved schools or probation hostels as envisaged under the CPW Act. Children also rarely receive legal representation given that they cannot afford this themselves. It is only in a limited number of cases where a child is charged with a serious crime that they will be granted a Legal Aid lawyer to represent them. 9.5 Reformation, family reintegration and social rehabilitation (Article 17(3) Legislative Section 178 of the CPW Act provides for reformation schools and probation hostels that do not physically exist. It says further at sections 182, 183 and 186 that no child under the age of 13 years will be sent there. Restorative justice measures give those sentencing children the option to return a child to their family under an order where they must attend school. They can also impose similar orders where they report to Probation Officers under section 127. Administrative There are Probation and Rehabilitation Units established within the MOJ. The latter of these Units is tasked to equip offenders with life skills for a successful reintegration into their home communities. JTC offers counseling, rehabilitation and also vocational training to allow children to integrate back into their communities more successfully upon their release.