Ministers plan to evict problem families

July 15, 2008

An attempt to combat knife related offences will see a crackdown on twenty-thousand so-called problem families.

As part of a new youth crime action plan, parents will be threatened with eviction if they fail to keep their children under control.

The Government's officially announcing the proposals today.

Paul Moore is from the charity NCH.

He tells Premier one of the most important ways of tackling crime is getting police officers talking to young people: