Opinion

Young people should be positively engaged

1 min read Youth Work
The government's new Youth Taskforce aims to deliver on the 10-year strategy Aiming High for Young People, which focuses on the expansion of positive activities, creating new places to go and developing local services to support young people.

It also covers the work of the Respect Taskforce on preventing and tackling antisocial behaviour, underlining the importance of a holistic look at this agenda.

Central to this approach will be cross-departmental co-operation and multi-agency work on the ground to deliver effective solutions. These moves mark a renewed emphasis on prevention, partnership building and positive engagement of young people, which is to be welcomed. Young people themselves have long identified this approach as one that works for them. Findings from 4Children's Make Space Review have shown that 70 per cent of teenagers believe that young people get involved in antisocial behaviour because they are bored.

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