ABSTRACT
This chapter describes several initiatives in Europe for different agencies, including welfare officials, school personnel and the police, to intervene with child delinquents in order to prevent their becoming serious, violent and chronic offenders. Interventions involving parents are increasingly common across Europe, with projects including EFFEKT in Germany, KOMET in Sweden and the Webster Stratton approach used in the UK. England and Wales have recently introduced Youth Inclusion and Support Panels (YISPs), which aim to prevent disruptive and delinquent behaviours by those 813-year-olds in the most deprived neighbourhoods who are considered to be at high risk of offending. The YISP focuses on children and young people aged 813 who are identified by two or more partner agencies and/or parents or carers as those youth who are most at risk of disruptive or delinquent behaviours. The project aimed to support nursery schools and families to integrate 314-year-olds at risk of social exclusion, attracting an average of seventy children every day.
