Issued: 07 March 2005
Funding Will Tackle Antisocial Behaviour
ANGUS Council has set out its plans to tackle antisocial behaviour by young people in the county.
The council's social work and health committee heard at its meeting on Tuesday 1 March that local authorities have a duty to develop antisocial behaviour services in respect of children and young people.
The Youth Justice Forum, using funding of over £100,000 which has been provided by the Scottish Executive, will develop these services.
The Youth Justice Forum is a multi agency group, made up of partners from departments across the council as well as Tayside Police, the voluntary sector, NHS and the authority reporter to the children's panel.
These funds will support current services and allow Angus to double the number of Restorative Justice Places available for children and young people.
These services are provided by two voluntary organisations (Tayside Council on Alcohol and the WEB) working in partnership.
It will also provide programmes through the children's hearings system for young people who are subject to antisocial behaviour orders.
These funds will also support the Youth Justice Forum in Angus to work towards the achievement of the national standards for youth justice by 2006.
This involves providing additional training to staff, improving the range of resources available that allow staff to challenge youth offending and antisocial behaviour, and allow social workers to meet new identified standards for the supervision of children subject to statutory measures of supervision.
Social work and health convener Glennis Middleton said: "These proposed service developments will provide significant additional support to those initiatives currently challenging offending and antisocial behaviour exhibited by some young people in Angus."