The Government is keen on parent education to prevent youth crime, but it needs to be given throughout childhood, says Anne Wiltsher
In his new film 'Minority Report', Stephen Spielberg takes crime prevention to its extreme. Set in 2053, a revolutionary criminal justice system called 'Pre-Crime', is in place. Primed by a trio of visionaries, criminals are caught by flying cops just before - rather than after - they commit a felony. The streets are safe at last.
Early years staff who see the film may be reminded of David Blunkett's speech earlier in the year in which he, too, took the long view on crime prevention. In a speech to the National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI), the home secretary said, 'The real challenge for the years ahead is how not only to support the normal day-to-day traumas of raising children...but how we can work with what can only be described as dysfunctional families.' Such families, he said, are causing havoc on our housing estates and we have to 'pick up behavioural reactions from the moment a child enters nursery education'.
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