3.6 Development 3.6.1 Unlike rehabilitation programmes, education and training programmes are not compulsory and many inmates refuse to participate. The Pretoria Female Centre tried to involve youth in programmes, but because many of the programmes require a basic level of competency, many inmates are unable to benefit from them. It is hoped that increased cooperation between the departments of education, labour and the correctional services will result in better particpation. 3.6.2. Though the Leeuwkop Juvenile Centre centre had 692 juvenile offenders at the time of the visit, it could only accommodate 200 in classrooms. The centre managed to secure two additional temporary structures that could be used pending a permanent solution for the infrastructure challenges. Approximately 80 juvenile offenders who are attending classes are detained in separate cells, to ensure that they have opportunity to study. Such enrolment is voluntary. Offenders raised concern that despite their efforts to rehabilitate, upon release they will face prejudice because of their past criminal behaviour. Officials' major concern related to the fact that participation in educational programmes was not compulsory even for children. Although all education programmes are marketed at the end of the year, many offenders are not interested and therefore attendance remains low. Should the DCS' efforts to revive the construction of the new centre on the land adjacent to the current juvenile centre be successful, educational needs will be better met. 3.6.3 Concerns about the roll-out of work and education programmes at the Rustenburg Correctional Centre remain. Inmates refuted officials' claims that a structured day programme was in place, and workshops still appear to be operating below expectation. In addition, although denied by officials, it appeared as though a separate structure on the grounds, ostensibly operating as a inmate workshop, is in fact a workshop where inmate-labour is used for private gain.