Early intervention. Enforcement. Support. These are the three key messages to emerge out of the Youth Taskforce Action Plan, which looks at how to stop young people from getting involved in antisocial behaviour.
The Youth Taskforce was set up last October to replace the Respect Taskforce and published its action plan on how to tackle antisocial behaviour in young people last Tuesday (18 March).
The 38-page document outlines 18 actions the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) hopes will combat the problem. At the centre of these is a proposal to establish 20 intensive intervention projects. These will be based on existing family intervention projects to give 1,000 troubled young people access to better support (CYP Now, 19-25 March). The young people will each be assigned a key worker and will sign a contract that outlines the consequences of not changing their behaviour.
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