TECHNOBUREAUCRACY ANO CITY LIFE (the report of a committee established in 1956) recommended the examination of a more coordinated family service and the setting up of family advice centres in « populated areas ». The report expressed concern about the increased rate of juvenil~ delinquency during the 1950's and proposed a long term solution based on the family. « The primary responsibility ofr bringing up children is parental and it is essentially a positive responsibility. It is the parents' duty to help their children to become effective and law-abiding citizens by example and training and by providing a stable and secure family background in which they can develop satisfactorily » (14). The « poverty programme » was still being seen as a means of social control by the time the Community Development Projects (CDP) were being set up in the late 1960's. The North Shields CDP, for instance, used to receive frequent informa! visits from the local police and were even sent regularly compiled lists of offences reported in the project area. By this time, therefore, it was not only the family but also the community which needed help in the eyes of the Home Office, to prevent the occurrence of crime. Another area of concern, closely related to concern about the family and the community, is race relations. Alex Lyon, speaking to parliament in 1974 as Minister for State at the Home Office made this « concern » abundantly clear. « The problem is complicated by the fact that a great many of those who suffer in these areas of deprivation are black and immigrant and, therefore, add to the deprivation felt by the indigenous population of these_ areas. They add newness, inadequacy of language and the cultura! differences which go to make up racial discrimination within our inner cities » (15). By the late 1960's there was no longer a shortage of cheap labour and there was a constantly broadcast fear that race riots on the scale of those seen in America could break out in Britain if coloured immigration continued. The government responded by cutting down on coloured immigration and by passing limited anti-discrimination legislation so as to enable it to maintain a socialist facade. It also set up the Community Relations Commission with its accompanying network of community relations councils (all the responsibility of the Home (14) lngleby Report on Children and Young Persons. (15) Hansard 29-7-74from Gilding the Ghetto, p. 47. 19
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