Funding is likely to be made available throughout England for schemes similar to the lottery-funded Splash Extra, which ran in 10 high-crime areas last summer. A similar programme is being expanded in Wales to cover all school holidays.
The Government last week announced that Splash Extra resulted in a 5.2 per cent reduction in crime in the parts of the country the schemes ran. In some areas, results were more dramatic. Avon and Somerset saw street crime and robbery fall by 31 per cent in neighbourhoods where there were such projects.
Splash Extra built on the Summer Splash programmes of cultural, sport and entertainment activities that were run in 2000 and 2001. But 8.8 million of funding from the New Opportunities Fund allowed these activities to be expanded by nearly 10 times last year as part of the Government's Street Crime Initiative. The money was channelled to projects through the Youth Justice Board and the Arts Council for England.
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