We invest in mentors in Pupil Referral Units and Alternative Provision settings who support young people aged 11-18 who have been excluded from secondary school.

📉We've seen improved:

✔️ Attendance
✔️ Attainment
✔️ Feelings of safety
✔️ Engagement

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We work with Advance to support young women and girls at risk of domestic abuse.

Advance have created free toolkits to help spot the ‘red flags’ in abusive relationships and how to source help.

Toolkits are for
✔️ Teachers
✔️ Parents & carers

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🧡Partnership, partnership, partnership.

It's integral to our approach. Last week, we brought together 120 people working in violence reduction to share best practice and celebrate partnership through prevention.

➡️ Find out about VRU's borough support: bit.ly/3Pix1r2

💡Our Evidence Hub aims to establish what works best to prevent violence and provide guidance on how to successfully implement these approaches.

🤝The Hub is for local authorities, schools, and Londoners interested in building a safer city for all.

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Our Director of Programmes Shinead & lead for #MyEnds Southwark spoke today London's Violence Reduction Unit conference, sharing good partnership practice with Community Safety Teams from across London borough’s. Building better working relationships is part of our inclusive decision making model.

A partnership approach to tackling violence.

Today, we’re at ExCeL London for our ‘Working together to tackle violence and make communities safer’ conference.

Speakers from London Innovation & Improvement Alliance (LIIA) Active Communities Network Tower Hamlets Council Barking and Dagenham Council Your Croydon Westminster City Council H&F Council Hackney Council

I am grateful to London's Violence Reduction Unit in awarding us our first grant of £50k so we can use music to divert and inspire many more young people in Hackney.

So important to tackle misogyny in schools. Pleased to be working with Tender to support healthy relationship sessions London's Violence Reduction Unit

The The Standard’s investigation into misogyny & sexual harassment in our schools raises troubling questions.

But there is plenty we can, and should, be doing to prevent misogynistic beliefs from taking root in the minds of young boys.

My op-ed for the Evening Standard:

🧡We're committed to proving positive opportunities.

Our funding is focused on not only competitive sport but also:
✅physical and mental wellbeing
✅safety
✅educational and employment outcomes in areas typically underserved by sports provision.

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❓ Are you passionate or interested in reducing violence, increasing safety and promoting opportunities for young people?

💡 You can receive email updates on how our partnership approach works towards more sustainable long-term reductions in violence.

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💡 We believe violence is preventable, not inevitable.

🧡When we work together, we can prevent and reduce violence in London.

➡️ Find out more about our approach to tackling violence that is rooted in prevention and early intervention: bit.ly/3MRaGzY

🧡We champion the life-changing impact that youth work has on young people and on our communities.

💡By investing directly in frontline youth work professionals and their organisations, Rise Up works to strengthen London’s youth sector.

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🙌 We are so pleased to share that our Parent Carer Champion Network (PCCN) are winners of the 2024 Hammersmith and Fulham Civic Honours Award.

🧡The PCCN has been extremely effective in fostering community safety and wellbeing, resulting in a positive impact on the community.

🤝 We joined The Ben Kinsella Trust at the release of a report focused on keeping young people safe.

➡️We are pleased to fund this insightful research as part of our shared belief that violence is preventable, not inevitable: bit.ly/4bN6AlO

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💡Evidence highlights that young people are particularly vulnerable to exploitation and violence during school holidays.

🧡We're expanding a fund to help community-led groups provide targeted provisions to keep young Londoners safe.

Find out more 👇
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Every day, youth workers make a difference. But good youth work cannot be achieved without good youth workers.

We’ve helped nearly 500 youth workers develop leadership skills and confidence.

Our Rise Up programme with London Youth is open.

➡️Apply now londonyouth.org/rise-up

💡 #LondonsInclusionCharter , adopted by 24 boroughs so far, works to tackle rising suspensions and persistent absenteeism.

➡️It champions 4 guiding principles of inclusion, supported by a £1.4m investment in @Unicef_uk's Rights Respecting Schools Award: london.gov.uk/programmes-str…