The government has stumped up £200,000 to fund the scheme and allow local services to deliver tailored interventions to support their day-to-day work in combating gang culture. Interventions will include workshops to challenge territorialism and build conflict resolution skills, and 72 professionals across Scotland will receive a toolkit with more than 40 examples of intervention workshops and programmes. Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill said the initiative was about challenging the assumption among young people that gang membership can...


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