Scotsman.com News - Top Stories - School chiefs 'could help cut youth crime': "School chiefs 'could help cut youth crime' 12 July 2004
KEVIN SCHOFIELD
EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT
Key points
� Education officials accused of failing troubled youngsters
� No-one takes responsibility for youth crime, claims Scottish prisons chief
� However, attack by prisons chief rejected as �a clich�
Key quote
'For those children who turn to truanting, we should be asking why. Some evidence suggests that the curriculum is not being adapted to their needs' - Dan Gunn, deputy director of prisons for Scotland
Story in full A SENIOR prisons chief last night accused education officials of not doing enough to prevent unruly pupils from embarking on a life of crime. "
