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by Lib Dem team on 5 February, 2015
In 2006/7 962 offences were committed by young re-offenders in Stockport. In 2012/13 (the latest figures we have) that number fell to just 154.
That figure represents a transformation. For ordinary people it means less crime, less anti-social behaviour and less fear. For the young offenders it means getting on the right path, sorting out their lives and not being dragged into a life of crime in which everyone suffers.
In Stockport we’re seeing fewer young people commit crimes in the first place, and of those who do fewer go on to commit further crimes after they’ve been taken on by our Youth Offending Team.
The figures on youth crime are positive across the country, with big falls almost everywhere. Stockport is one of the best in the country, but pretty much everywhere we know that young people are drinking less, smoking less, committing fewer crimes, taking drugs less, getting pregnant less and having sex later than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations did.
If you want to dig down and find out more about how Stockport has done it, the latest Youth Justice Plan has lots of information here:
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