ATV Today: 07.09.1981: Workout - Greyfriars

Summary

Doug Carnegie report on the Greyfriars Community Enterprise scheme in Earlsdon, Coventry, where unemployed teenagers help the elderly.

Year:

1981

Duration:

0:04:05

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

The scheme is run by Top Shop, part of the education authority of Coventry City Council with money from the Manpower Services Commission and is under threat of closure, but nobody will say why. Shots of teenagers at work digging gardens and cutting hedges. Interview with an elderly resident about the help she has received. Vox pops with young people who do not know what is happening with the scheme. Exterior of the Greyfriars office. Doug Carnegie piece to camera outside Top Shop office and close up of documents that recommend the use of Pavlovian psychology on the young people. Interview with two Conservative councillors who blame political reasons by the Labour controlled city council for the closure.


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