The creation of 1,000 community hubs for teenagers, recruiting an “army” of youth practitioners to be trusted adults for vulnerable young people and putting tackling child criminal exploitation at the top of the political agenda are some of the recommendations of a review led by former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield.
Hidden in Plain Sight, the final report of the year-long Commission on Young Lives, sets out a national action plan with a range of recommendations to the government, councils, the police and schools to tackle what it calls “deep rooted” problems in support systems for children and young people at risk of criminal exploitation and violence (see box).
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