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Essence Youth Mentoring, Birmingham
December 18, 2024
“Right now, there’s gang violence happening in the Newtown area and many of our girls and young men are scared to come out,” says Kasharel Belle. For Kasharel and her co-founder, Natina Whitter, who runs Essence Youth Mentoring from The Lighthouse Young People’s Centre in Birmingham, the impact of local violence is an ongoing challenge.…
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Children, Violence and Vulnerability 2024
November 20, 2024
This is YEF’s third annual Children, violence and vulnerability report. This year, YEF surveyed over 10,000 teenage children aged 13-17 in England and Wales about their experiences of violence. Amid the everyday pressures of adolescence — school, friendships and self-discovery — many teenagers are also having to navigate a more troubling issue: violence. This year’s…
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Four months after the ban on so-called “zombie knives,” our Youth Advisory Board (YAB) argues that while the ban is a step in the right direction, more comprehensive action is needed to effectively tackle knife crime. The 2016 ban on zombie knives was hampered by a loophole, allowing retailers to circumvent restrictions by simply removing…
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