I'd like to ask readers to join us in registering our serious concerns about the continued assault on young people through consistently depicting them as problems.
In these times of joined-up government, it is regrettable that the Department of Communities and Local Government's questions in the New Place Survey give out a completely opposite message to the good intentions of the Children's Plan (CYP Now, 23-29 January).
The New Place Survey contains a question that typifies the negative stereotyping of young people: "How much of a problem are teenagers hanging round the street? Very big problem. Fairly big problem. Not a big problem." A subsequent question replaces teenagers with "abandoned or burnt-out cars". The presumption that hanging around is in itself antisocial is appalling.
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