"I Just Want to Play Football. It's Really Hard to Find a Pitch to Play On": Inclusion as Prevention in South Lanarkshire. Test of Change Summary Report

A group of young people hanging around a South Lanarkshire park were asked by the Inclusion as Prevention (IAP) engagement coordinator what they like to do in their community and what they would like in their community. The answer came … they told us they would like to have access to the 'quality' locked football pitches, some of them told us that they would climb the fence in order to access these pitches and be chased away by staff or the police. This is the story of the journey to providing that access and the impact that this had on the young people and the community where they live.