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Rowing and predictive analytics - the youth projects getting cash to tackle violence

6 mins read Youth Justice Youth Work
The Home Office has announced funding worth £17.7m over two years to 29 projects working to divert children and young people away from violent crime in England and Wales.

Here is a rundown of which youth projects will receive the money, made available to police and crime commissioners across the country.

London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime for £4.2m
(across 10 projects)

Pan London Rescue and Response County Lines Project - will support young people being exploited, or at risk of exploitation, through "county lines" crime, providing a rescue service for those young people being exploited, as well as training frontline professionals across London to better identify and divert young people away from exploitation earlier.

DIVERT - A programme to divert young people into employment, development and education opportunities at the point of police custody will expand from two sites in London - Brixton and Croydon - to a further two - Lewisham and Stoke Newington.

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