Inde exclusive: Scale of youth crime suppressed until after election
source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-scale-of-youth-crime-suppressed-until-a...
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The Independent runs with a exclusive story today that the government is delaying the figures for crimes committed by under 18s till after the election.
The article opens with the delay being connect to figures that could be embarrassing to the government with the approaching election and the increase in criticisms with youth crime in the news.
Also last night Newsnight highlighted the taboo issue of "children sexually abusing children and how a long-promised national strategy to help victims has not been delivered." which mentioned similar delays and neglect into a national strategy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8569219.stm
The article opens with the delay being connect to figures that could be embarrassing to the government with the approaching election and the increase in criticisms with youth crime in the news.
Also last night Newsnight highlighted the taboo issue of "children sexually abusing children and how a long-promised national strategy to help victims has not been delivered." which mentioned similar delays and neglect into a national strategy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8569219.stm
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