The achievements of PAYP's predecessor schemes - Splash, Splash Extra and Summer Plus - were well trumpeted by the Government, in particular an 18 per cent fall in youth crime in the first year of Splash and more than three-quarters of those involved in Summer Plus returning to education or employment. Nonetheless, the shortcomings were well aired: confusion from multiple funding schemes, a breakneck time-table, problems in recruiting and retaining staff and a letdown for some young people as the programmes finished with a bump at the end of August.
PAYP was designed to address the problems. The approach has been to provide a single funding stream and to extend the programme so that activities could be provided at half-term, Christmas and Easter holidays. The expanded programme would combine the activities approach of Splash and the additional key worker support of Summer Plus, and it was also announced that there would be funding for three years (see YPN, 4-10 June, p12).
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