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£700,000 on offer to fight youth crime rise
3:00am Tuesday 16th September 2008
Comments (21)Bradford Council is set to claim a share of a multi-million pound fund to tackle the growing problem of youth crime.
Council chiefs will be handed £700,000 over the next three years with an immediate £90,000 injection if they agree to an “intensive package” of measures which could include more afterschool patrols and streetbased teams.
Bradford is one of 69 areas that will be given cash to be used for early intervention programmes and “tough enforcement” schemes, ministers say.
The Home Office say the cash will build on excellent work already under way in different parts of the country and measures will include: l using safeguarding laws to remove young people at risk from the streets at night l street-based teams of youth workers and former gang members to tackle groups of young people involved in crime and disorder l increased visible police patrols during after-school hours l providing positive activities for young people l placing youth offending team workers in police stations so that young offenders can be dealt with and directed to the most appropriate service at the earliest opportunity.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: “I know the vast majority of young people are on the right track but there is a minority whose behaviour causes disruption to their communities. I want young people to be able to fulfil their full potential but that means intervening as early as possible to prevent offending and to ensure that unacceptable behaviour is tackled effectively.
“There is not an either/or option in tackling youth crime: we need both tough enforcement and effective preventative measures to drive down youth crime and anti-social behaviour.
“The money we are investing today demonstrates this Government’s determination to tackle youth crime and improve the quality of life for young people, their families and their communities.”
Justice Minister David Hanson said guaranteed funding for three years would help councils plan how best to tackle the problem of youth crime in their areas.
He added: “In working with local councils we are targeting this investment to ensure that we reduce youth crime rates and make our communities safer. The extra funding will support work already underway to help young people turn away from a life of crime.”
Ministers say the funding is a major milestone in the delivery of the Youth Crime Action Plan, launched in July, which aims to tackle youth crime through a comprehensive plan of early prevention, nonnegotiable support and tough enforcement.
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Legion, Bradford says...
8:28am Tue 16 Sep 08
Mekon, Shipley says...
9:27am Tue 16 Sep 08
tyker, midland road says...
9:34am Tue 16 Sep 08
my human rights to live an unfettered life free from crime comes before those rights of people who chose to seek to dent me that right.
so please before people start to spout that these people have human rights and need more education etc please tell me where the billions of pounds spent on education has gone.
i saw a news item this morning about kids in Peckam and Lewisham in London being given more help and assistance as they were from an impoverished area.
Each youth was smoking, wearing ear rings and jewellry and tattos and all wearing designer trainers--impoverish
ed???????????? shoes that I cannot afford even to look at.
spend the money on getting the police and I mean proper police out on the streets tackling these issues and then money spent on p[roper enforement.
The USA have criminals working in groups on community projects but importantly properly supervised by prison officers--and I mean properly supervised!!
tyker, midland road says...
9:53am Tue 16 Sep 08
MEKON
so all kids out on the street at night getting up to no good are victims of acholol induced attacks from parents are they? proof required on this as it is a rather sweeping statement.
It is a rather strange statement to make. Youth today have never had better facilities:they chose to ignore them and chose to get into unlawful acts: their decison in the knowledge that there is no meaningful law enforcement.
the majority of teenagers occupy their evenings studying, helping their parents and grandparents or work with other voluntary organisations etc etc:
Mekon, Shipley says...
10:57am Tue 16 Sep 08
This is a bit of a sweeping generalisation too.
From the work I do, I am aware that the kids you find out on the street 'late' at night do not want to return to their homes, because they get more friendship and love from their mates/gangs then from their family.
There are a few community projects around that help them but not enough. That is what part of this money is for.
In regards to the police; yes we need more out on the street, and we need bigger sentences for the 'bad ones' but we also need more community based sentences that get them to put something back into the community that they have taken out.
tyker, midland road says...
11:29am Tue 16 Sep 08
This is a bit of a sweeping generalisation too.
not really
a school holds say 500 pupils and there are probably a very small percentage of those kids out on teh streets causing bother.
if it were otheriwse we would see hundreds of kids on the street each and every night-- does that happen.
where I live there are about 100 teengae kids and not one of them is out causing trouble on a night!!!! is that too much of a genearlisation or an accurately reported fact.
why are these kids not on the street? they are all achieving good grades at school, going on to further education and university and getting good grades whilst also having fun with friends BUT no causing trouble.
Their education system and facilities available to them is no different!
quote From the work I do, I am aware that the kids you find out on the street 'late' at night do not want to return to their homes, because they get more friendship and love from their mates/gangs then from their family.
and you only come into contact with a small percentage causing bother:it is these that need to be taught some harsh realties of life: cause trouble and there will be severe punishment which will be wholly enforced.
dazbot, Bradford says...
11:46am Tue 16 Sep 08
a: Yes more punishment for the teenages that cause trouble - but more community based than prison.
b: The creation of more centers for teenages, to give them something to do rather than roming around the streets.
I think severe punishment should be saved for the teenages that repeatedly cause anguish for the community or are violent.
I remember seeing that secret millionaire program on telly, and a guy had setup an allotment in his area for young people to get envolved in nature, and it seemed to work really well.
Juice Terry, Oakworth says...
11:48am Tue 16 Sep 08
They used to keep me off the streets and out of trouble... Most of the time.
Tom Sutton, Thornton says...
11:51am Tue 16 Sep 08
The problems is we have a centrist Government which wants to control every aspect of our lives. The sooner we get rid of this Government the better for all.
cypruscentral, Paphos says...
1:04pm Tue 16 Sep 08
Collos, Bradford says...
1:21pm Tue 16 Sep 08
Unfortunatley its not a few but in some schools its around 30% but they dare not tell you that.If a pupil signs in a morning he's there if the general puplic were to be a fly on the wall in some schools they would have a very rude awaking to the reality of our education system.
sentinel, the north says...
1:38pm Tue 16 Sep 08
cypruscentral wrote:Well put.
its much deeper ingrained in our society than we think, stop people getting things too easy, you don't have a job, then here have your dole and go and clean that park up in return for it, you robbed someone, great your community service will be hard labour, a few blisters to remind you why your here. this country is soft, Cyprus works well, you rob someone, you get the biggest kicking you could ever dream of, you don't have a job here in Cyprus, tough, you starve, it sounds harsh but it works really well, benefits are few and far between here and people have more respect for each other because of it. the UK makes life too easy for people, therefore they lose values and respect
mrs walker, Round here says...
2:01pm Tue 16 Sep 08
templar48, Bradford says...
5:12pm Tue 16 Sep 08
Legion, Bradford says...
5:35pm Tue 16 Sep 08
templar48 wrote:Its like that where i am, infact! I can hear one of those quad bikes now, isn't there a law for how loud an engine can be?
Where I live they all ride round on motocross bikes,baffles removed to make more noise,everybody can hear them for miles around,except the police it would seem!
In response to Mrs Walker, if that's the case then, keep your bloody PC Nose out of my comments you deluded woman!
templar48, Bradford says...
6:14pm Tue 16 Sep 08
c,etc.
The police call them nuisence bikers ,if we all drove round in our cars without the above mentioned would we be simply nuisence motorists.I think not!.
tyker, midland road says...
6:41pm Tue 16 Sep 08
condescending part: re-organise the letters.
mrs walker, Round here says...
10:24pm Tue 16 Sep 08
Oh and Tyker, I reorganised the letters - 'Decent Pinc Dragon'?? A sweet anagram, and probably quite accurate, but 'pink' is spelled with a 'k'.
tyker, midland road says...
7:59am Wed 17 Sep 08
pathetic, pathetic and pathetic!
you will go a long way, hopefully!
mrs walker, Round here says...
10:44pm Wed 17 Sep 08
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Collos, Bradford says...
7:16am Tue 16 Sep 08