Government to fund youth schemes

Updated

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scouts walking up Snowdon
scouts walking up Snowdon

Scouts, guides, police cadets and other youth clubs are to be set up in deprived areas as part of a £10 million scheme to improve life chances and cut crime.

The groups are usually found in leafy suburbs and shire counties, but ministers want to bring them into inner cities.

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