Here are my key questions for charity leaders who also need to #switchtoremote.
How has the need changed?
When the UK went into lockdown, we weren’t sure what this would mean for youth violence presentations at hospital. It seemed likely that street violence would go down, at least to begin with, simply because there weren’t as many people out in the street!
But vulnerabilities don’t go away just because you’re cooped up at home. Many young people are more vulnerable than ever, and their safe spaces – schools, youth centres, sports clubs – are closed. Pathways to positive adults have been disrupted, leaving space for negative influences to potentially step in. This is one of the reasons we decided it was essential for Redthread’s services to continue, and we got stuck into thinking about how this might work.
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