CYP Now - Three quarters of London boroughs sign up to charter to tackle lost learning

More than three quarters of London boroughs have now signed up to an inclusive education charter designed by Sadiq Khan’s violence reduction unit (VRU).

Lib Peck speaks at an event sharing best practice for embedding the inclusion charter. Picture: London VRU

Launched in February, the initiative is the first city-wide inclusion charter designed to reduce increasing levels of violence linked to school exclusions and absenteeism across the capital.

At an event sharing best practice around inclusion from local authorities and schools across the capital, the director of London’s VRU Lib Peck revealed that 24 of 32 boroughs have now signed-up.

“This has been backed up by 10 boroughs who have already created their own children's rights steering groups to embed a children’s rights approach to drive this commitment forward with their schools,” she said.

The charter runs alongside a £1.4m partnership between the VRU and UNICEF UK to provide children’s rights resources and training to support inclusive practice and engagement for all state-funded school and education settings in London for the next four years. 

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