Belfast Council is to spend half a million pounds this summer on a programme directing young people away from antisocial and criminal behaviour.
Details were made public at the Belfast City Council ’s last meeting before this Thursday’s elections of the summer diversionary scheme.
The annual scheme provides funding for community festivals and events in a bid to reduce tensions around July and August bonfires, but has run into controversy with Alliance, the SDLP and Green Party previously calling the fund a DUP-Sinn Féin community group “carve-up” lacking open process.
