Youth project Street Dreams has been working in the town for the past six months to tackle an increase in fighting between Asian teenagers and their Black and White peers in and around an estate in the Bletchley area.
The outreach project was given 16,000 by Milton Keynes Anti-Racial Harassment Group after police heard about its success in reducing racist incidents in Oxfordshire.
Street Dreams' workers, Jay Blades and Jade Erguvanli, worked with a core of 40 to 50 young people connected with the violence. They identified the issues behind the attacks, including parental influence, territorialism and a lack of shared youth facilities, and arranged talks between the young people and local authorities.
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