The youth organisation’s report advocates the use of "on-road" support workers, who combine youth work skills with an understanding of criminology, to support young people in communities affected by gang violence.
Those in this specialist role are be able to forge relationships with young people by gaining their “acceptance, approval and permission,” the report says.
This is because such workers have credibility within communities by ensuring they have an understanding of young people’s lives, including their language, behaviour and dress code.
On-road workers are then given “unprecedented access to spaces, which many practitioners and academics alike cannot and will not access”, such as housing estates and street corners.
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