Written evidence to be reported to the House
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
3:00 pm
Ann Lucas: It is often a lot cheaper. Through the local strategic partnerships in Coventry, we have different youth activities, with some bad boys and girls, especially bad girls, funnily enough, because if you get a bad girl you will find that you usually have six or seven bad boys somewhere quite close. For a very small amount of money, you can actually get them to think about what they want to do in their community and, if they have something to do that is not sport, because not all girls want to do sport, for £2,000 or £3,000 you can get a group off the street. We got a group of 19 off the street and the crime figures went down immensely.