Laurelle Brown
Laurelle is a JNC-qualified Youth and Community Worker with over 20 years’ experience in children’s services, including roles in social care, youth offending, and education. She has held key positions at organisations such as The Children’s Society, Coram Voice, the London Violence Reduction Unit, and various local authorities.
Laurelle excels in leading transformational change within child welfare systems, navigating complex political landscapes, and developing impactful strategies for organisations. Her special interest areas are anti-racism, systems thinking, and intersectionality.
She is also a Churchill Fellow, Director of KIJIJI, and serves as a Lay Member for a Safeguarding Children Partnership and a School Governor. Passionate about centering marginalised voices, Laurelle’s work is informed by her identity as a neurodivergent Black woman.
Laurelle has been a Race Equity Associate at the Youth Endowment Fund since 2023.
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Blog:Building race equity into practice: lessons from the focused deterrence programme
When a programme combines enforcement and support to prevent violence, the question of racial equity isn’t optional; it is fundamental. Since 2023, I been working as a Race Equity Consultant across the Focused Deterrence (FD) programme in Leicester, Coventry and Wolverhampton (CIRV), and Nottingham, and providing light-touch support to Greater Manchester, where the team had their own core race equity consultants. Over this period, we have achieved progress,…
