The Government once again looks for 'solutions' that sound promising, but are utterly incapable of implementation.
The root of society's problems lie in education, which successive governments over the last fourty years have used as a vote-catcher because everyone has an opinion on schools, based on personal experience.
If Tony Blair seriously wants to sort out society's prblems, a good place to start would be nursery education, which at present is often seen as an option for girls who have no idea what else they want to do in life. Nursery nurses are paid appalingly, especially in regard to the responsibilities they have, not only for looking after children, but for the formation of social habits and personal interaction in children, which they carry through into adult life.
The government should apply the same policy it applies to company exexutives (fat cats) - you need to pay a high rate to attract the correct calibre of individual - so pay a salary commensurate with responsibility, and carefully select candidtates for training who can actually do the job properly, and the government can start to undo some of the damage done by the present incumbents, and every Education Secrertary for the last forty years.
There are no quick fixes - even the 'respect' agenda was a total nonsense. Teach children to love and respect each other and society's ills will vanish in the space of a generation.
It won't happen, but that, in fact, is that snwer.