Over the weekend we have had unwelcome visitors in our school garden.  They have littered the area with glass bottles and litter and pulled down the water-butt, damaging a fence.  The garden seems to be a magnet for vandals – we often have to clean up after they have used our little playhouse to smoke drugs and drink in.  The mess they leave is disgusting and our staff often have to rope off the garden and clean up broken glass, litter etc.  We report this to the police on a regular basis.  There is little that the police can do – our garden is not overlooked and it is very difficult to catch the perpetrators.  We would love to hear any “legal” ideas that anyone might have as to how we can make the area more secure or deter the vandals from visiting.