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Understanding perpetrator behaviour to protect the vulnerable

    Features
  • Thursday, February 2, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Sexually abusive behaviour challenges our moral compass – rightly so – and provokes us to rush to condemn the perpetrator. For those of us whose role it is to protect the the victims and survivors and onlookers, the affront can feel intensely personal.

Stop posting photos of knives on social media, police told

    News
  • Wednesday, January 25, 2023
  • | CYP Now
London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has called on the Metropolitan Police to stop posting images of confiscated knives and weapons on social media, after finding these can trigger fear among young people and cause some to locate more dangerous weapons to protect themselves.

Call to remove police officers from schools

    News
  • Monday, January 16, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Police officers in England should be "removed from schools" as their presence disproportionately impacts black and minority ethnic communities, a race equality think tank warns.

Youth crime prevention scheme expands

    News
  • Friday, January 13, 2023
  • | CYP Now
A London-based programme designed to divert vulnerable young people away from the criminal justice system has expanded outside of the capital for the first time.

Solutions to failing youth court on ministers' desks

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, January 3, 2023
  • | CYP Now
Elizabeth Haslam, a former nurse, founded the Michael Sieff Foundation in memory of her late husband in 1987. Immediate motivation came from the publication of the report into the death of Jasmine Beckford some four years earlier. Jasmine had been beaten and starved to death by her stepfather.

London VRU forms partnership to tackle school exclusions

    News
  • Friday, December 2, 2022
  • | CYP Now
London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has revealed plans to to work with schools, pupil referral units (PRU) and local authority safeguarding teams to reduce the number of children excluded from school in a bid to protect them from involvement in violent crime.

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