03 January 2008

Training, Crime And Youth

A letter in the Guardian today:

We need to offer vulnerable young people alternatives to crime.

More than half (63%) of the young people arrested on our streets are unemployed at the point of apprehension. Research has proven that services offering education, guidance, rehabilitation and training in key skills are the best antidotes to crime and recidivism.

Locking young people up doesn't work.

Sukhvinder Kaur Stubbs
Chief executive
Barrow Cadbury Trust

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