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Analysis: Anti-social behaviour - A softer side to the respectagenda

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Despite the media's focus on punitive aspects of the Respect Action.

Plan, it also showed a gentler side to the Government's agenda withplans for family support services. Tristan Donovan examines what theseservices do and what pilots have achieved to date.

A sheep in wolf's clothing is how Joyce Moseley, the head of youthcharity Rainer, summed up the Government's latest string ofannouncements on fostering respect.

Since its inception, the Government's respect agenda has faced repeatedcriticism from many within the children and young people's sector.Anti-social behaviour orders have proven particularly problematic thanksto naming and shaming, their use on children with learning difficultiesand some seemingly ridiculous restrictions that have stopped childrengoing to school or attending youth offending team services.

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