Chance UK has provided a vital mentoring service to primary school children in Hackney for nearly 10 years. These children have behavioural difficulties, and without the intervention of Chance UK would be more likely to go on to criminal offending and anti-social behaviour later in life. We currently work with 60 children a year but Hackney Council is cutting our funding which has resulted in our having to reduce our service, impacting on half the places we provide.
Additionally the council are reducing the funding retrospectively from April last year, which means that the service we have provided for the last year will not be paid for. This will be a huge financial blow to the organisation which, like all voluntary organisations is already suffering as a result of the credit crunch.
At a time when all political parties are in agreement that the best way to impact on youth crime, gang membership and gun and knife crime is early intervention work, it is short-sighted for Hackney Council to be reducing its funding. Hackney is an area of the country that has some of the highest levels of these crimes and therefore it is irresponsible of the council to be decreasing its support for this award-winning and widely recognised early intervention programme, that not just achieves results but can prove it achieves them.
Please support us to get this decision changed by signing our petition below.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Chance UK
http://www.chanceuk.com/
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