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    Bürgermeister stellt 30 Millionen Pfund für einen Jugendclub in jedem Londoner Bezirk bereit

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    2. Hungry_Horace on

      This is fantastic news.

      The closures of youth clubs and other facilities under austerity directly contributed to the rise in youth crime.

      https://ifs.org.uk/publications/effects-youth-clubs-education-and-crime

      – 30% of youth clubs closed in London between 2010 and 2019.

      – Teenagers in areas affected performed nearly 4% worse in national high-school exams. Youths aged 10 to 17 became 14% more likely to commit crimes.

      It is cheaper to give kids something more productive to do with their lives, than it is to house them in prisons later on.

      I was involved for a time with a youth boxing club and saw first hand the changes exercise, discipline and male role models can have on kids that otherwise were on the slide into gangs.

    3. pinwroot on

      My youth group as a teen saved me and pushed me in the right direction. I didn’t have good parental support and they were my lifeline.

      Not everyone has positive experiences but overall this is a net positive.

      I wouldn’t be half the person I am today without them. They made me a good person with good values and helped me obtain great skills. All kids deserve a lifeline, because we don’t all get them from birth.

    4. Originzzzzzzz on

      Can’t wait for the guy who goes „that’s a waste of my tax money“ as though this isn’t what it’s for

    5. Lazy-Competition7966 on

      Disgraceful, this money should’ve been used to implement a quintuple lock.

      /s

    6. UnalomeJourneying on

      Hire local people too. Definitely need more men youth workers in these places so young boys have a strong male role model.

    7. Calelith on

      Thank fuck we are spending money on actual useful things.

      There is a direct link to the closure of yourh clubs, centres and areas and the rise in youth crime in those areas.

    9. unbelievablydull82 on

      Fantastic. We had a wonderful family in the 90s who opened up a youth club on a Tuesday and Friday, a drama club on a Monday, and for a short time a football team on a Thursday. They also ran a summer club four days a week. We even had a year where they did a community BBQ with a local church, all you had to do was bring something to cook. Of course it didn’t prevent some teenagers outside the club playing keepy uppy with Molotov cocktails, and using drain pipes as makeshift rocket launchers, shooting fireworks into people’s windows, but they gave kids in a really rough area something to enjoy

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