Will £100 vouches for parenting classes help to prevent the risk of riots?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....le-child-yobbery.html

/// The trial scheme in Middlesbrough, Camden in North London and High Peak in Derbyshire, will cost £5 million.///

I wonder why these particular areas were pick out for the trial scheme?

Is it because it is in these areas that their young might be future rioters?

[THECORBYLOON]

There were riots in Camden but not the other two. As for future rioters do you mean the wee ones or the parents?

[Dodger666]

There's another £5M of taxpayers cash down the drain. It would be better spent on instructing the incapable parents on birth control. Or better still, sterilising them.

[ummmm]

People don't start out to be bad parents.

Parenting can be hard work. Who teaches you to be a good parent if your own parents weren't the best?

[pdq1]

The parents that need this training will obviously not take it up. If they were really worried about their children they would have tackled it years ago not now its too late

[emmie]

were they expecting 5 year old to riots. Not sure that the good citizens of our borough would appreciate squandering all this money, whilst having their libraries closed, care homes farmed out, recycling and rubbish collections going awol.

[emmie]

it's the damn parents who need training, not the children.

[anotheoldgit]

/// it's the damn parents who need training, not the children. ///

And that is exactly what this scheme is designed to do Em.

That is training the parents in parenting skills, so that hopefully they can then bring their children up to behave themselves.