Press Release

FAMILY INTERVENTION PROJECTS

18 March 2008

Commenting on the Government’s decision to expand family intervention projects, Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching union said;

“A programme of early intervention is the obvious route. Some of our youngsters lead desperate lives. It is essential that strategies to tackle the worst behaviour both inside and outside of schools moves on to the front foot.

“ASBOs may sometimes remove anti-social behaviour and violence from communities but they can’t tackle its causes. Schools will welcome the expansion of family intervention projects. Too often, schools have been given the sole responsibility for sorting out society’s problems”.