The Home Office has announced today (Wednesday 4 March 2020) that from next month new powers to tackle knife crime will be piloted by the Metropolitan Police. Knife Crime Prevention Orders (KCPOs) were introduced through the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 and will give officers an additional tool to steer those most at risk away from violent crime. […]
Knife Crime
Our CEO Andrez Harriott has shared a recent experience when working with a group of young people in custody……….. “In light of last weeks four murders in London, two involving children I am sharing today’s work experience to explain the mistrust held by some young people towards adults and how this may contribute towards their lack of trust […]
Our CEO’s Recent Experience of Custody
As we continue to deliver preventative messages within schools across London, we are sometimes met with very emotional situations. Our team are often unable to share their insights due to the age of the children that we work with but on this occasion, our CEO felt that this story should be shared. Our CEO Andrez Harriott attended a school […]
Our CEO Shares A Personal Story
This week saw the Engage Influence and Inspire team in Greenwich, a place more commonly known as the Royal Borough. However, with a rise of 22% in violent crime last year alone (2015, London Assembly), the borough set the perfect backdrop for our first session with the students – Crime and Consequences. The group, full of aspiring musicians, […]
Engage, Influence and Inspire Blog 6
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
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
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 ...
