On the one hand, there was the usual tub-thumping rhetoric about clamping down on yobs and antisocial behaviour. On the other, there was recognition that the preventative approach of the Youth Justice Board was working well, which was backed by a significant extension of youth inclusion programmes and other youth provision designed to prevent offending.
The Baseline project in Southampton profiled in this issue of Young People Now is a good example of a youth inclusion programme in action (see p16).
It is one of 70 projects set up four years ago in deprived parts of England and Wales to target the 50 young teenagers in each area most involved in crime or at risk of offending. Greg Baker, project manager of Baseline, says only one young person from the Southampton scheme has been sent to a young offenders' institution since it began, which backs up the case for the extension of the youth inclusion programme.
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