Funding: £800 for materials from the local crime and disorder reduction partnership and Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
Aim: To help young offenders give something back to society
- Young offenders in Liverpool have created a sensory garden for pupils with learning difficulties. The move was part of a community payback scheme and was overseen by Liverpool Youth Offending Team (YOT). The young people were aged between 10 and 18 and worked with a landscape architect, who guided the young people's work.
Steve Boote, restorative justice co-ordinator at Liverpool YOT, says it is important that the work is not seen as a punishment but as a chance for young people to contribute to their community. "A lot of our work comes under the banner of City Safe (the crime and disorder reduction partnership) and the young people wear high-visibility jackets," he says. "We don't think of it as punishing them, instead there's a notion of citizenship.
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