Back Page: Hound - Between the lines in the past week's media
Children Now
27 July 2005
It has not been a good week for anti-social behaviour policy. The
Daily Mail was in panic mode. "One of the keystones of the Government's
law and order strategy has been kicked away". This was the High Court's
fault. It had, said the paper, given the go-ahead to gangs of youngsters
to "raise two fingers" to law and order.
The Telegraph was also feeling anxious. It said the ruling had
"effectively demolished a key plank" of the Home Office's anti-social
behaviour strategy. What caused all this keystone kicking away and plank demolishing? Who
triggered the collapse of the Government's strategy? An unnamed
16-year-old, helped by civil liberties lawyers....