The protest on the estate on Saturday

Protesters walked round the Plas Madoc estate waving placards and then stood outside the Plas y Wern bail hostel.

Last year, three protesters chained themselves to railings outside the hostel during a demonstration.

The Home Office said it cannot discuss individual cases, but none of the people staying at the bail hostel posed a serious risk to the local community.

Protest organiser Sue Charles from nearby Rhosymedre said: "We have got concerns about the bail hostel being close to too many primary and secondary schools in the area.

"If you get a paedophile that harms a child, it destroys that child's life and wrecks their family's too."

I have had assurances that serious sex offenders are not there Local MP Martyn Jones

In a statement the Home Office said there had been no change to the category of people housed at Plas y Wern.

A spokeswoman said: "Public safety is our top priority.

"Our main concern has always been and always will be the safety of local people. She said there had been no change to the category of people staying at the hostel.

"And while we cannot discuss individual cases we can, however, reassure the local community that none of the people staying at the hostel poses a serious risk to the local community."

Assurances

The spokeswoman said the home secretary was reviewing how to manage child sex offenders in the community.

The review would look at how best to provide controlled access to information about child sex offenders when they are released from custody, the arrangements for approved premises and accommodation of child sex offenders and how to maintain public confidence in the system.

Local MP Martyn Jones said he had received assurances from the probation service that no-one who posed a serious risk would be sent to Plas y Wern.

But he said it was impossible not to allow anyone who was on the sex offenders register from going there.

The Clwyd South MP said; ""What the protesters want is not possible.

"They don't want any sex offenders there but the probation service cannot make that commitment not to have anyone on the sex offenders list.

"I have had assurances that serious sex offenders are not there, they have been assessed as not being a danger, " Mr Jones said.

A liaison committee set up last year to discuss concerns about the hostel following protests last year is due to meet on Friday.