RBKC Direct: Focusing on antisocial behaviour and services for young people

The Council has a wide range of initiatives to get youngsters back on the straight and narrow should they commit an offence. Focusing on early intervention, the Council's Youth Offending Team provides diversionary activities to numerous youngsters, giving them a chance to turn their lives around before it is too late.

Burglary went down five per cent last year but most burglaries are preventable and more than one in four break-ins is due to unlocked or insecure windows and doors. The Council has teamed up with the police for a major publicity campaign called Love it Lock it to promote this simple fact and to urge residents to lock up their homes this summer.

Building a much-needed new secondary school in Chelsea is a major project for the Council, and one that has received a significant boost following the Department for Education and Skills' (DfES) decision to grant feasibility funding for the new academy. More good news came when Heatherley's School of Fine Art agreed to move from the proposed site for the school to a brand new building nearby.

Children who attend schools in Kensington and Chelsea are eating the healthiest school meals in the country. The Council has signed new contracts that see it leading the way nationally in providing nutritious organic school meals. Dishes are now prepared using a majority of fresh ingredients, while restrictions are in place on the amount of sugar and salt in each meal.