Mission: To raise awareness of the risk of gang involvement
Funding: About 100,000 from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and Southwark Youth Offending Team
Gangs may have been in the headlines recently, but in Southwark specific work on the problem has been taking place since 2001.
Mike Montrose-Francis, practice manager at the team, says: "There was an emergence of patterns of offending in young people who came through the youth offending team (YOT), in terms of group offending, and possible gang links."
The YOT allocated two workers to look at the issues, and just over a year ago this grew into a five-person unit after neighbourhood renewal funding was accessed to pay for some extra posts.
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