LibDem proposals for youth crime

Thanks to Aberavon and Neath LibDems for flagging up Chris Huhne's launch of the LibDem proposals to tackle youth crime.

The main proposals contained in the paper A Life Away From Crime include:

The creation of a Youth Volunteer Force, to engage with young people, involve them in community projects and give them skills to benefit them in later life

Establish Community Justice Panels across the country, where offenders admit their guilt to the community and agree on a Positive Behaviour Order as a course of action

Create a dedicated PCSO youth officer within every Safer Neighbourhood Team to identify and work with teenagers most at risk of offending

10,000 more police on the streets by scrapping the ID cards scheme

Intelligence-led stop and search and ‘hot spot policing’ targeted at gun and knife crime

Restorative justice programs to be run in every community, specifically targeted at early intervention with widespread use in schools and care homes

The full document can be downloaded here.