From the outside, The Point youth bus looks just like a regular bus. It has four wheels, a door to one side and a driver's cab just about visible through the window. But once inside the similarity soon ends.
The interior is crammed full of the latest technology, from high-spec computers to flat-screen TVs and the obligatory PlayStation 2. There's not a chewing-gum marked seat in sight.
The bus is the brainchild of Chris Scott, deputy head of Hillingdon Youth Service, which runs the bus in the Middlesex borough. "I'd seen how territorial young people could be in a previous job," he recalls. "They either weren't able or just didn't want to travel to youth clubs. So when I moved to Hillingdon one of the first things I recommended was getting a youth bus."
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