Graham Allen, the Labour MP for Nottingham North and chair of the city'slocal strategic partnership, said the plan was based on proposalsdeveloped in the US after the Columbine High School Massacre.
"They came up with 600 initiatives, boiled them down to 10, and thenwent for them hell for leather. That's what we're looking at inNottingham," he said.
The partnership aims to tackle social problems by building programmesaround 12 policies based on effective intervention for under-twos. Allensaid the city planned to go ahead with the pilots, tendered out underthe Social Exclusion Action Plan, whether it won a contract or not.
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