Could £300 million funding package to cut youth crime and anti social behaviour and make streets safer help communities where selective licensing schemes have been started?
Aiming to help "up to 20,000 more children and young people" the Government's new "Turnaround" scheme aims to catch young people before they fall into criminality - the cost to the economy of late intervention is estimated to be £17 billion.
The new funding package is to support local authorities in providing "wrap around" services including mentoring, extra school tuition, mental health support as well as local sports clubs to help keep children and young people from becoming involved in anti social behaviour in their communities.
Welcomed by the Youth Justice Board, the scheme will target specific funding to local authorities so that they can plan long term with greater certainty and "ensure that funding reaches areas who need it".
Potentially this funding could lead to a significant improvement in outcomes in areas where selective licensing is in place and ASB is one of the reasons that a council has brought in selective licensing.