An even more dangerous, and more easily obtainable, stimulus is provided by drugs. These crimes are the product of unrestricted idleness. Yet adults exist wanting only training and the entree to schools to serve as mentors to youngsters whose home life and school careers may be equally unstable. As chairman of the Divert Trust, which funds both sorts of activity, I declare an interest and tell the Government that there is a sleeping army of volunteers out there that they cannot afford to neglect. For a list of other organisations I refer them to the lecture last Wednesday night on youth justice of the noble and learned Lord the Lord Chief Justice.
Some youth crime is unavoidable, but much is unnecessary.
It is brilliant at raising them. But the many who do not get lottery money are up against it. Column 208 charity. That money is to help to pay for a building to celebrate the birth of Our Lord. A better memorial would surely be to shave just a half of 1 per cent.