Greenwich teenagers being supported by the crime reduction charity Nacro, are to benefit from a radical new health initiative launching today, aimed at improving their diet, fitness and mental wellbeing.

'The rise in the NEET figures puts the community more at risk from crime by disaffected young people.'

Welcoming Home Secretary Alan Johnson’s call for a review of which criminal records are held on the police national computer, with an eye to removing old and irrelevant records, Mervyn Barrett from Nacro, the crime reduction charity, commented: