Cutting youth crime

Yesterday Chris Huhne set out the Liberal Democrat approach to cutting youth crime:

“If we want to tackle the problem of youth crime, we need to take action early to stop kids from embarking on a life of crime before it’s too late.

“The old parties are falling over each other trying to be tough on crime, but nothing is being done do stop young people getting sucked in to a cycle of crime.

“Ministers know that programmes to divert kids away from crime work, and are even happy to promote such projects. However, they have failed to fund them properly in favour of punitive policies that grab headlines but achieve little.

“It is time for a new approach to youth justice which both prevents crime and confronts young people with their actions if they do break the law.”

You can watch Chris Huhne explain the Lib Dem over on the BBC website.