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Local Areas receive funding to continue tackling anti-social behaviour and support parents
58 local areas will receive funding of £12.9m over the next 3 years in their effort to continue challenging anti-social behaviour and support young people Children's and young people's Minister Beverley Hughes announced today.
In addition 77 local areas will receive £11.7m over the next 3 years to fund parenting practitioners. The majority of parents do a good job, but a minority fail to set any boundaries and allow their children to drift into anti-social behaviour. These professionals will provide support to families involved in or at risk of anti-social behaviour.
The funding will help local authorities intervene early, support parents, prevent young people getting into trouble and help them fulfil their potential.
Antisocial behaviour levels are going down and as a result of the hard work by local authorities they have reduced perceptions of antisocial behaviour in 94% of local areas. Building on this success the Youth Taskforce is now asking local authorities:
* to tackle perceptions on parent's responsibility for their children's behaviour
* And tackle perceptions on whether young people treat each other with respect.
The Minister spoke today to representatives of 47 local authorities about how the new Youth Taskforce will take forward this work by putting even greater emphasise on promoting earlier intervention and more positive activities for young people.
Minister for Children and Young People Beverley Hughes speaking at the event said:
"The Youth Taskforce will balance the important job of challenging bad behaviour and intervening at its source, with a strong commitment to transforming the positive opportunities and activities available to all young people, and especially those at risk of becoming drawn into a cycle of problem behaviour.
"This is recognition that respect is a two-way street. We have to give young people themselves the respect, responsibility and opportunity to play a constructive role in communities, if we are to expect them to return the compliment."
NOTES TO EDITORS
1. The Youth Taskforce will build on the success of Respect and it will play a lead role in helping local youth support services to focus more on preventing teenagers from experiencing serious problems such as being drawn into youth crime and anti-social behaviour and disengaging from school. It will also help deliver the major expansion of positive activities and reform of services as set out in our ten year youth strategy - Aiming High for Young People.
2. The funding continues from £4.3m per year that targeted local areas currently receive through Local Area Agreements to help them deliver the Respect programme.
3. Local authorities will have the power to decide the most appropriate way to use the money to achieve the priorities agreed with the Government.
4. The £3.9m per year will provide continuation funding for 77 Respect parenting practitioners. It will be provided by grant funding and will be conditional on areas employing parenting practitioners to work with parents of young people at risk or involved in anti-social behaviour.
Annex B
Proposed YTF Area Based Grant Funding 08/09 -10/11
Below is a table detailing the funding to be provided to Local Authorities Areas through the Area Based Grant over the next 3 years.
Local Area Funding
Birmingham City Council £342,759.00
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council £82,000.00
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council £55,000.00
Bournemouth Borough Council £35,000.00
Brighton and Hove City Council £150,000.00
Bristol City Council £68,699.95
Burnley Borough Council(Lancashire County Council) £47,410.00
Camden £100,000.00
Canterbury City Council(Kent County Council) £50,000.00
Chester City Council(Chesire County Council) £70,000.00
City of York Council £50,000.00
Coventry City Council £33,000.00
Derby City Council £35,500.00
District of Easington(Durham County Council) £50,000.00
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council £25,000.00
Dover District Council(Kent County Council) £57,000.00
Exeter City Council(Devon County Council) £26,000.00
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council £50,000.00
Gloucester City Council(Gloucestershire County £30,000.00
Council)
Great Yarmouth Borough Council(Norfolk County £50,000.00
Council)
Hackney £100,000.00
Harlow District Council(Essex County Council) £41,000.00
Hastings Borough Council(East Sussex County) £25,000.00
Ipswich Borough Council(Suffolk County Council) £30,000.00
Kingston upon Hull City Council £27,000.00
Kirklees Metropolitan Council £25,000.00
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council £100,000.00
Leeds City Council £230,000.00
Leicester City Council £25,000.00
Liverpool City Council £250,000.00
Manchester City Council £474,500.00
Middlesbrough Council £25,000.00
Newcastle City Council £50,000.00
Northampton Borough Council(Northamptonshire County £50,000.00
Council)
Norwich City Council(Norfolk County Council) £25,000.00
Nottingham City Council £30,000.00
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council £94,850.00
Oxford City Council(Oxfordshire County Council) £75,000.00
Peterborough City Council £38,000.00
Plymouth City Council £50,000.00
Portsmouth City Council £25,000.00
Reading Borough Council £50,000.00
Salford City Council £40,000.00
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council £25,000.00
Sheffield City Council £250,000.00
Slough Borough Council £79,000.00
South Tyneside Council £25,000.00
Southampton City Council £28,000.00
Southend on Sea Borough Council £25,000.00
Southwark £50,000.00
Sunderland City Council £164,000.00
Swindon Borough Council £75,000.00
Tendring District Council(Essex County Council) £50,000.00
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council £25,000.00
Watford Borough Council(Hertfordshire County £70,000.00
Council)
Westminster £100,000.00
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council £40,000.00
Wolverhampton City Council £50,000.00
Total £4,243,718.95
Annex A
Parenting Practitioner Funding 08-09 to 10-11
Local Authority Area Funding
Birmingham £50,000
Blackburn with Darwen £50,000
Blackpool £50,000
Bolton £50,000
Bournemouth £50,000
Bradford £50,000
Brighton & Hove £50,000
Bristol £50,000
Burnley £50,000
Coventry £50,000
Derby £50,000
Doncaster £50,000
Exeter £50,000
Gloucester £50,000
Harlow £50,000
Hastings £50,000
Ipswich £50,000
Kingston upon Hull £50,000
Kirklees £50,000
Knowsley £50,000
Leeds £50,000
Leicester £50,000
Liverpool £50,000
Manchester £50,000
Middlesbrough £50,000
Newcastle upon Tyne £50,000
Norwich £50,000
Nottingham £50,000
Oldham £50,000
Plymouth £50,000
Portsmouth £50,000
Salford £50,000
Sandwell £50,000
Sheffield £50,000
South Tyneside £50,000
Southampton £50,000
Southend-on-Sea £50,000
Sunderland £50,000
Wakefield £50,000
Wirral £50,000
Camden £50,000
Hackney £50,000
Lambeth £50,000
Newham £50,000
Southwark £50,000
Tower Hamlets £50,000
Westminster £50,000
Barnsley £50,000
Darlington £50,000
Hartlepool £50,000
Mansfield £50,000
Rochdale £50,000
Stoke £50,000
Ashfield £50,000
Bassetlaw £50,000
Bolsover £50,000
Barking & Dagenham £50,000
Corby £50,000
Derwentside £50,000
Dudley £50,000
Easington £50,000
Great Yarmouth £50,000
Greenwich £50,000
Halton £50,000
Haringey £50,000
Luton £50,000
Medway £50,000
North East Lincolnshire £50,000
Northampton £50,000
Peterborough £50,000
Reading £50,000
Redcar & Cleveland £50,000
Rotherham £50,000
Slough £50,000
Thanet £50,000
Torbay £50,000
Walsall £50,000
Total £3,850,000
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