The analysis is that we have an enduring problem because we have failed to create a seamless service that lifts young people out of a life of poverty, crime and drug abuse; that we run the risk of punishing the most vulnerable; and that statistics and reasoning cut no ice with the media, which seem to have an insatiable appetite for demonising the young.
The four strands of the IPPR prescription for dealing with this were interesting: the re-bonding of children and adults, new forms of civic intervention, the erection of firmer boundaries around childhood to better "protect" it and more public resources for the disadvantaged.
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