Transcript of the PM’s podcast on responsibility, recorded on 21 November 2009.
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I was in Nottingham this week and saw how local communities are taking far more responsibility to make their neighbourhoods safer.
And I heard firsthand about the inspiring work being done in our family intervention projects, which force the most chaotic families to take responsibility for themselves and their children.
And I can tell you it’s really working. Of the first 700 families to go through the system, two thirds are no longer involved in any anti social behaviour at all.
Here’s what one family involved told me when I met them:
Arthur Greaves: It has made a great difference, hasn’t it?
Kerry Dooley: Yes
Arthur Greaves: At first we didn’t think it would, but it has made a good change.
PM: How long have you been involved in the family interventions?
Arthur Greaves: Six months now.
PM: Six months?
Arthur Greaves: Yes.
PM: So you’ve seen the difference over that time?
Arthur Greaves: We’ve seen it, yes. And our neighbours and everybody, they keep on praising us about the boys as well.
PM: That’s good.
Arthur Greaves: They said that they’ve proper changed and they don’t get into any more trouble. So we have, like, made them change and they [indistinct].
PM: Well people will be very proud of what you’ve done.
And we are doing more. We must continue to do everything in our power to ensure all of you have the support you need to live free of crime in your neighbourhoods.
You know, the Britain I want is one where people behave responsibly - and responsibility must start from the classroom and it must go right through to the boardroom.
So next week my message to the banks will be that they also have responsibilities: to never again put the jobs, homes, livelihoods and savings of others in jeopardy.
And thatt’s why - through the Financial Services Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech - we are ready to respond swiftly to the recommendations of Sir David Walker’s review of banking.
We’ll be able for the first time to force companies to publish details about the pay of their most senior executives.
It will give us the powers to reform the running and the boards of banks.
I’ll also be talking to the Confederation of British Industry on Monday and I’ll be talking about how we can help determined young people entering an uncertain world get the jobs that they need.
I want employers to show faith in our young people, to see what they can do; to develop their talent and to provide that crucial first break.
That’s why this year we launched our Backing Young Britain campaign.
And that’s why this week we announced four new proposals to help young people into training or work.
Together with those measures introduced over the past 12 months, it’s the most comprehensive and effective programme for preventing higher unemployment that our country has had.
And in the coming weeks we will reaffirm our commitment to working with employers to promote growth and prosperity when we publish the Back to Work White Paper.
This will set out the next steps to get people back into work as quickly as possible; to improve work incentives and promote family-friendly employment; to equip people with the skills they need to secure the jobs of the future.
We’ll not stand by and allow another generation to be written off and communities be abandoned as happened in the 80s and 90s.
So this is what we mean when we talk about building a more responsible and a fairer Britain.
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