Launching the £7.9m fund at King’s College Hospital, in south London, today (7 October), Sadiq Khan said the grant would be split over 12 centres with services provided by youth work organisations Redthread, St Giles Trust and Oasis.
The service enables youth workers to support young people, who present at A&E with injuries from involvement in violent crime, to move away from criminal activity.
The scheme was first launched at King’s College Hospital by Redthread in 2005 and has since expanded across eight A&E hospitals and four major trauma centres, in the capital with funding from the London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU).
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