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Youth workers step in amid lack of family help to protect children from crime

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Youth workers are stepping in to cover for a lack of help from parents and families to prevent children in London from being involved in violent crime, a report has found.
Work should be done to 'develop and further professionalise the work of youth practitioners in London', experts say. Picture: Seventyfour/Adobe Stock
Work should be done to 'develop and further professionalise the work of youth practitioners in London', experts say. Picture: Seventyfour/Adobe Stock

Parents and families play “an important role in preventing children and young people” becoming involved in crime, according to the report by the London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee.

But the capital is blighted by “an absence of wraparound" help from families which is seeing many children “not getting that support”.

Often youth workers are having to “step in and fill that gap”, the report by the Committee found.

Among those giving evidence to the committee was Sherry Peck, chief executive of the youth crime prevention charity Safer London.

She told assembly members that the charity focuses on work with parents as they “are the biggest safeguarding factors for our children”.

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