Are you fed up with being labelled a vandal?

The way I see it, it's always us teens who get blamed for everything from broken windows to graffiti, but why? Not all of us hang around on street corners, not all of us are violent or trouble-makers! It's just a few teens who let the whole side down!

The police are concerned for our wellbeing yet fail to notice that there is nowhere for us to go - other than the park (and I sometimes question the safety of that area!) – to stay out of trouble. They do all they can to move groups of youths away from public areas but they simply start causing trouble again in a different place.

We need safe places to go, we need to be responsible for ourselves as well as the area that we live in but most of all we need to be trusted.