Youth workers from the group run workshops in schools, youth clubs and youth offending teams. It is now getting young people to run the workshops themselves, and has piloted the idea in the London Borough of Hackney.
Bob Goldsmith, a youth worker from the project, said the young people are given the same resources as adult workers: "The only thing we don't allow them to do is carry weapons." Be Safe is hoping to repeat the success of the pilot with a scheme in Haringey, before rolling the idea out to other London boroughs.
www.besafeproject.org.uk.
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