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Action over child yobs
Friday 27th February 2009, 4:13PM GMT.
Children as young as eight who have been causing havoc on a Shrewsbury estate by throwing bricks and intimidating residents are to be asked to sign good behaviour contracts.
The gang of youngsters, aged from eight to 12, have been told they must stop their bad behaviour, which is causing a nightmare for residents in the New Park Road area of Castlefields.
Severnside Housing bosses today called for the youngsters to co-operate with them and sign special contracts promising good behaviour in the future.
The association will be contacting parents of the youths in the next 10 days to ask them and their children to add their signatures to the acceptable behaviour contracts.
The scheme has already proved successful in the Wingfield Close and Gardens area in Ditherington.
And Severnside bosses have warned that if the situation does not improve they could take the issue to court to take out an anti-social behaviour order.
Steve Gittins, from the housing association, said: “We are working with local people to contact parents and guardians to see if they will sign up to an acceptable behaviour contract.
“These are entirely voluntary and we cannot force parents or their children to sign them.
“But we are looking to work with the parents to try and resolve the behaviour before it does get out of hand.
“The police have identified a number of young children who are causing the problems in New Park Road.
“The group of youngsters are aged between eight and 12 years old.
“It is intimidation of people in and around the area of New Park Road and particularly intimidation of local residents leaving the area of the shops. There have been issues with throwing bricks at local residents.”
Mr Gittins said the acceptable behaviour contract was the first stage of the process.
Councillor Alan Mosley, county councillor for Castlefields, has said he and residents had put a lot of pressure on Severnside to deal with problems in the area.
By Rebecca Lawrence
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yeah that will work, wont it, why dont they send them to florida for 2 weeks why there at it.
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I would not live in Shrewsbury if you paid me!!!
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What a sad place we live in!
When is enough, enough.
Not so Great Britain
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Shrewsbury is sad to hear that Y Mab Darogan….
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Why don’t Severnside Housing bosses get these childrens parents to sign these forms or lose the houses?
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because unfortunately its never as simple as that and a civil court wouold rule against the organisation if they hadn’t gone down the route of Acceptable behaviour contracts in the first place. Blame the national Housing Corporation or the courts who will never evict unless you have proven you have offered them the world and they still dont co-operate. I worked in housing for years!!!
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I think we have some stero-type views here .How do we know the children live in severnside homes?? do all the trouble makers live in severnside homes?? not from my experiance they do not . Do the ones in bayston hill live in severnside homes. college fields, sutton farm, heath farm, rea brook,and most of the small villages surrounding shrewbury.
Forget the silly sign this etc just round them up and take them home. Some on here may be shocked where they end up taking them .
Then tell the parents when they both get in from work that is can you please take care, entertain, and know where your little dears are .
Thats the problem know one is looking after the children they are both out working to pay for the flash cars two holidays and keeping up with the jones’es, or they are divorced or they are having me me me time . Forget where they live whether they are severnside tennants, private tennants , mortgage payers the trouble making kids come from all the sections mentioned LOOK AFTER YOUR KIDS.
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bring bakc the cane, the national service, the boy scouts and hanging, that will sort them
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Agree with no.5. Carrot and donkey!!
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I live in the heart of this area and I am well aware of the problem, I know who these urban terrorists are, and where they live, I would happily name and shame these little thugs but would probably suffer the consequences of their equally low life thug parents. I am not prepared to stand back and let Castlefields degenerate thanks to these disfunctional families, I cannot take the law into my own hands, but I will act within the law to destroy this evil cancer that threatens the lifestyle of the good people who live here in what was a very nice community.
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It is not without understanding why the Road to Shangri-La is routed via the Channel Tunnel North! ……. the tales of the Bureaucratic Idiocy in the UK are Legendary and have made Britain the Laughing Stock of the World! ……. this latest example of Inane Lunacy is as of now doing the rounds! ……….
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best not shout at these yobs because you might end up with a criminal record for infringing their rights and being abusive!
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“The police have identified a number of young children who are causing the problems in New Park Road”. Thats probably more than the parents can do!
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makes you want to bring bakc hanging
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please dont give castlefields a bad name – i live there and i dont want my house price to go down any more – its got some lovely bits but the council need to keep their promise to physically regenerate the infrasturcutre around ditherington ans the spar shop especially, those rows of shops are a shambles and as for taking 20 years to sort the MEB site out, if it was in Copthorne it would have been fixed years ago
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Victoria, why should some one living in a association house be subject to any more rules than a private tennant,mortgage payer, tide house etc etc.So called middle class crime is more of a problem in the uk than it has ever been what do you do with that lot?.
I accept SOME living in social houseing are social outcasts but the majority are law abiding hard working members of the community i can think of teachers,firemen ambulance men among them , and i knew of a number of police officers living in social houseing too. Your comments seem rather sweeping and stero-typical and rather bitter.
As i have said just round the children up and take them home and if they are causing damage fine the parents. Kicking people out on to the streets is just silly talk by people who are not bright enough or capable of thinking of a measured punishment.
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Shrewsbury in “yob problem” shocker.
Who’d have thought it…….;-)
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more CCTV in castlefields please despite what david davis and his loony tory civil liberties lot think , we need to feel safe and catch the criminals, more cctv is the solution here please
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cctv i am afaraid is used to convict very few criminals.The quality is 99% of the time very poor .What you need is more police not cso .
I would also point out it would actually be cheaper to employ registered security firms to patrol problem areas on foot 24hrs than employ a cso .
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the phrase ‘one bad apple’ comes to mind, we need a targeted approach to the one or two bad lads, not blaming all kids
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i would support more cctv
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well i would live in shrewsbury if you did not pay me!
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Catch the little dears, collar the parents and chuck the whole family out of the country – job done.
Until we deal with these scum in the appropriate way they will continue to breed and destroy the lives of those around them.
Get tough in action not through bits of paper.
Roll on the revolution!!
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I think Castlefields Precinct definately needs brightening up, more flowers, more murals, public art, yes more CCTV, better surfacing on the car park, tidy up that messy recycling area, and more lighting, i would like to see them light the church up at night, that would improve the area and reduce crime
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more CCTV is a good plan, also more police presence though is vital, as cctv is good to catch people belately but i would rather stop the crime in the first place
I wonder if a curfew after 9 would help? It could be done with the new police powers
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Target the parents they are the ones that have not instilled discipline and basic decent behaviour into their kids! decent area’s can be destroyed by one or two dyfunctional families :-(
Y Mab Darogan must live in Telford enough said!
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please please please will someone spend some hard cash on improving the appearance of castlefields pronto
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