Beverley Hughes speaking about early intervention:
How do we give very troubled young people an effective alternative to the path they’re currently set on?
This question assumes even greater urgency when we think about the most challenging, most at risk young people – those committing anti-social behaviour, caught up in a cycle of crime or violence, sliding into drug addiction, or seduced by gangs or other extremist ideologies.
Whilst this is a tiny minority of young people, the damage they cause to themselves, their families and local communities can be devastating.
But neither are these young people hopeless.
We must mobilise every force we can to prevent youngsters being seduced by the flawed belief that violence or other risky behaviour is the way to win respect.
Filed under: risk and protective factors , Beverley Hughes MP
Is this gonna end someday??