Offending behaviour

This week the TLG team have been working with our partners The PYE Project to deliver workshops in custody to parents of children currently serving custodial sentences. The workshops are organised by the Prison Service with the focus of enabling families to spend the day in custody and quality time with their children. We are proud to have […]

TLG Deliver Resettlement Focused Workshop In HMPYOI

in Discussions / Families / MOJ / Offending behaviour / TLG News

This week saw the TLG team begin a new cycle of Engage, Influence, and Inspire at a school in Lewisham. To put it into context, the borough of Lewisham has previously been named the ‘least peaceful’ place in the UK based on the following five indicators: the murder rate, violent crime rate, weapons crime rate, public disorder offences […]

Engage, Influence and Inspire Blog 5

in Offending behaviour / Schools / TLG News

The former advisor to ex-Prime Minister David Cameron has said there is no reliable way of measuring the impact of youth work and the sector should “stop looking” for one. Paul Oginsky, CEO of Personal Development Point, which helped develop the government’s flagship National Citizen Service (NCS) initiative, said that organisations which work with young people need to […]

Former Cameron advisor: Impossible to measure youth work impact

in Evidence / Funding / Offending behaviour / Partnerships / Schools

There is a belief that locking young people up and throwing away the key will solve the problem of violence on our streets. And if we choose to believe the images the media portray to us, the faces of this violent and lawless twenty-first century generation will only breed fear. But this generation, whether caught up in offending […]

Violent crime in England and Wales is up 24%, police ...

in Gang Intervention / Offending behaviour / TLG News / Violence