Issues and proposed solutions

ISSUES

SOLUTIONS

Listen to how young people feel.

Outreach programme.

Drop-in centre, people could volunteer.

They have nothing to do.

Teams of CRB-checked volunteers.

They do not know what they want.

Offer them support to prepare them.

Need better lighting in recreations areas.

Maintain recreation areas and improve them.

How can public contact outreach worker.

Stop criticising young people, some are not doing any harm.

Local magazines should be more involved, not so dismissive at someone else's problem.

Media have lots to answer for.

Courses for parents using community facilities.

Drug/alcohol awareness.

Lakers closes in summer holidays.

Lakers to be used more widely by young people. (SCC) give them options.

What is happening with Lakers? Staff problems

Volunteers from community could help

Lakers not open late enough. Shuts too early.

Outreach workers could talk to young people.

People threatened.

Young people drunk.

Alcohol advisory service.

Problems, family life.

Place to watch DVDs, talk to people, and get help. Improving self-confidence.

It is older young people that have nothing to do. Do not want a youth club. Stigma attached to this facility.

Right people in right place (age-wise). Can Lakers be opened up to make it more accessible? More sports available.

Do Goldsworth Park residents us the YPod? No it is for `goody goodies'.

Young people more sophisticated.

Smoking ban will force more people onto the street.

Stop them smoking, make it cool to be a non-smoker.

Lakeview Club works well but it attracts trouble-makers. (Not local kids). Do not want to shut it.

Get buy-in from young people. Give them responsibility.

Police presence around lodge drives people elsewhere.

More police needed near Waitrose. (Threats, fear, security guard cannot cope, driving fast in area).

How do you manage what comes with good stuff.

CCTV could help. High-tech solutions (Mosquito).

CCTV drives peoples elsewhere.

Police need to get out of cars and walk around at night.

Cameras are preventative.

Peer pressure, if it is not cool people, will not do it.

Outreach workers could speak to kids.

Could local people report trouble? Need a mechanism.

Too many places for young people to hide.

Plain clothes police officers build relationships with young people.

Panel meetings not publicised by police.

Need to improve communications, better publicity.

Leaflets have worked well.

Use notice board by Waitrose for panel meetings and officer details.