Friday, October 26, 2007

[Scotland] How we were saved from being branded another 'family from hell' / Scotsman, 26 October 2007
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1707902007
LOUISE GRAY
"JANET Leith's family were in danger of becoming the "neighbours from hell". She was just coming off heroin, her partner, Allan, was in prison for drugs offences and her four children often played truant from school. Neighbours feared it was only a matter of time before one of the children attracted the attention of police, not least for throwing stones at windows, or the entire family became the subject of an ASBO for noise nuisance. But the pattern of behaviour was broken when Scotland's first ever early intervention unit contacted the family at their Edinburgh home."