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Words of the minister: Beverley Hughes addresses the ADCS conference

1 min read Youth Justice Youth Work
On youth crime:

"The recent deeply worrying incidents of violent youth crime calls all of us to question our capacity to make a difference to children and young people in the most hard-pressed communities. We do need a step change in prevention and intense intervention at the early stage with young people if we're going to make lasting differences."

On field forces:

"We see an opportunity in the next couple of years to talk about not just having a more rationalised approach, but a radically different approach to field forces. We're going to look really critically at how we might do things differently."

On the fear of crime:

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