Our young people are the future of our communities and they must be given every encouragement to have a positive impact on their environments and in their own lives.
Every penny spent investing in young people via projects such as Glasgow Community Safety Services is a penny spent investing in all of our futures.
Youngsters are often vilified – held up as all that is wrong with society.
This separation of young people from the rest of society only encourages the anti-social behaviour that makes so many people's lives a misery and sets young people on the path to a troubled adulthood.
It is absolutely the right thing to spend money on youth projects and to include children and young adults in shaping their environments.
Whether that is through sport or by simply allowing them to get to know their local police officer or fire fighter, it can only be a good thing for us all.
Now that these projects are producing results, it is vital that we don't let things slide and that the investment is continued and the efforts maintained.
It makes perfect sense.
THE work being done across Glasgow to reduce levels of youth crime is producing encouraging results.
Our young people are the future of our communities and they must be given every encouragement to have a positive impact on their environments and in their own lives.
Every penny spent investing in young people via projects such as Glasgow Community Safety Services is a penny spent investing in all of our futures.
Youngsters are often vilified – held up as all that is wrong with society.
This separation of young people from the rest of society only encourages the anti-social behaviour that makes so many people's lives a misery and sets young people on the path to a troubled adulthood.
It is absolutely the right thing to spend money on youth projects and to include children and young adults in shaping their environments.
Whether that is through sport or by simply allowing them to get to know their local police officer or fire fighter, it can only be a good thing for us all.
Now that these projects are producing results, it is vital that we don't let things slide and that the investment is continued and the efforts maintained.
It makes perfect sense.
