Large, old fashioned Secure Care registers in a Children's Care and Protection residence. did not contain the level of details which was needed (for example breakdown of Secure room use by age or ethnicity). We therefore decided to focus instead on more detailed data relating to the use of Secure in one Care and Protection residence and one Youth Justice facility. Both these residences were analysed (and visited) in 2016 too, allowing a good comparison of the two time periods. We were also able to spend a day in one of the residences and see for ourselves the physical facilities. These are discussed below after an analysis of the data. Frequency and length of placements in Secure Care units The use of Secure Care rooms in a Youth Justice facility, June-December 2019 In the six months between June and December 2019, a total of 76 children and young people aged 14 to 18 years old were placed in the Secure unit of their facility on 298 occasions, spending anywhere between a few hours and 20 days in the Secure unit. In total, these children spent 815 days in Secure Care in the Youth Justice facility (compared to 54 children and young people spending a total of 307 days in Secure during 6 months in 2016). Over half (54.7%) of these children identified as New Zealand Mäori. 28