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Bus Stop Five – Going in the right directionSPACE has allowed staff agencies to visit ‘hot spot’ areas and engage with hard toreach individuals in their own back yard, providing them with IT, leisure facilitiesand a wide range of advice and support and it is working.The numbers of young people using the facility averages45-50 each night with up to 100 at weekends.As a result of this, the levels of criminal damage andanti-social behaviour have been considerably REDUCEDby a staggering total of 885 incidents!Overall this has resulted in far fewer people being victimised and over 1000 lessdeployments for Police Officers.In one area, Burnley Wood, there was a 39% decrease in criminaldamage and an 18% decrease in ASB over the ten-week periodSPACE was deployed.Local residents and previous complainants unanimously support SPACE and havestated that there is less crime, disorder and nuisance when the bus is present. Aresident wrote a letter to local newspaper, the Burnley Express, stated that duringtwo-week visit by the SPACE bus, ‘yobbish and anti-social behaviour has stopped’’,that ‘this has brought some peace to the area’ and expressed ‘a big thank you toeveryone concerned’.4
Bus passes with flying colours –Anecdotes of Achievement• Young people queue and wait for SPACE to arrive in some locations and youngpeople travel to access the bus• Two groups of youths, of differing ethnicity, resolved disputes and now sharethe bus and play football together• A number of youths have been able to utilise IT facilities which they statethey do not have access to at their home addresses• A youth stated confidentially to one of the youth workers that he had ‘notbeen stealing for two days’ because of having something to do on SPACE• A local youth centre has had to provide an additional nights activities eachweek as a result of the numbers of young people attending after beingsignposted there by the youth bus staff• Youths having asked for and subsequently receiving careers informationabout the construction industry from Vedas Recruitment and being offeredpossible placements• Workers aboard SPACE identified a possible ‘at risk’ child and that family isnow working with a Parenting Support Worker• The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) have showcased SPACE inBrussels as an example of good practice and effective use of their fundingand they are keen to send a delegation to visit the bus in the next fewmonths• The Home Office invited project workers to showcase the SPACE bus as agood practice case study at a recent ‘Celebrating Success Conference’ andhave included the project in the new National Crime Strategy, ‘Cutting Crime- A new partnership 2008-11’.Changing lives and attitudesAs a result of engagement with the Space Bus here are two examples of howthe lives of two young people involved have been turned around:A young girl had some traumatic events in her life and being involved withthe project has resulted in her becoming a Police Cadet, volunteer onthe bus and has persuaded her to take an academic route with a view toattending university.A young man who was truanting from school and stole a youth workershandbag from the bus has engaged in the Restorative Justice Process and asa result is now back in full time education and volunteering on the bus in hisown and other areas.5
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