Police reform - is it relevant to my job? The Bill includes quite a fewchanges that will affect children and young people, and by extensionthose who work with or for children and young people.
How? It's a mishmash of a Bill, which takes forward the neighbourhoodpolicing agenda best articulated by Government a couple of years ago ina white paper called Building Communities, Beating Crime. It provides afoundation for greater community involvement in policing, andsignificant modernisation of the workforce, including police andcommunity support officers (CSOs).
Which means? CSOs and police are akin to classroom assistants andteachers - they have different levels of training and qualifications,roles and powers, and rates of pay and status. Yet CSOs are rarelydifferentiated from police in the minds of the public because they spendso much time patrolling the streets, they work with and begin to knowthe local children and young people. For instance, some have introduceddiversionary activities to reduce what others in the community perceiveas problem behaviour.
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