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pageProgress since October 2008L responded well to his supervision under robust conditionsset by the Court. He has engaged in offending behaviourwork, Victim Empathy and constructive leisure activities.This has included work that recognised his interests andtalents and through the support at Soft Touch, creative artsproject designing his own trainers and has considered howthis would be marketed. He has been offered the opportunitythrough the Challenge and Support Project to participate in agraffiti mural undertaken at the local National Association forthe Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) offices.This project, assisted by ‘reformed’ graffiti artists, illustratedthe positive/negative aspects of youth and L played acrucial part in design and completion. L has also recentlybeen involved in a project local to his home area, sprayingimages on the construction boards of a building in progress,highlighting the themes associated with libraries andcommunity. Whilst all these efforts have been of a highstandard and application. The latter is particularly salientgiven L’s previous pattern of offending, illegally sprayinglocal buildings (including a library) to the annoyanceof local residents.In addition to the above I am happy to report that L’sprolific offending rate has significantly reduced and aftera successfully supported period at an individual leaningcentre he has begun this academic year back in mainstreameducation. The need for criminal anti-social behaviourrequirements has also abated and L is now working voluntarilywith the local ABSO unit to refrain from further offending.I feel strongly that in order that L should continue to progressit is crucial that opportunities needs to be presented toencourage him to be involved in ways he can legitimatelyexpress himself artistically and constructively, preferablywithin his local community.FundersFunded by Challenge and Support Unit at LeicesterAnti Social Behaviour Unit in partnership with NACRO.CASESTUDYVisualArts