Brown: teenagers will get the chance to serve their community
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A new scheme to keep teenagers on the right track is to be announced today - by the chancellor of the exchequer.
The proposals will include rewarding teenagers who behave well with vouchers which can be spent on sport and leisure activities.
But youngsters who mis-behave repeatedly will get their vouchers taken away.
The Chancellor is expected to announce a pilot scheme today in ten areas, aimed at improving levels of fitness in young people - and getting them more involved in the community they live in.
All youngsters aged from 13 to 19 will be given cards allowing them to spend between £12 and £25 a month on sporting and other facilities.
This morning on Breakfast:
We talked live to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.
We asked him about his plans for teenagers - and we put to him some of the hundreds of e-mails we've had, complaining about hospital telephone and car-park charges.
On his plans for young people, Gordon Brown told Breakfast:
"We have been tough on anti-social behaviour and that will continue.
"Ninety eight per cent of young people behave themselves - and they are as angry as the rest of us with those who don't.
"But they did tell us that there is not enough to do. "
The chancellor has been touring the country, visiting schemes for young people, from summer holiday radio stations, to floodlit football which stays open until midnight.
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