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25th Feb Gangs & Criminal Explotation LEVEL 3

4th March  – Gangs & Criminal Exploitation Vulnerability Level 3

11th March – Gangs & Criminal Exploitation Vulnerability Level 3

25th March – Drug Awareness & Young People

1st  April – Gangs & Criminal Exploitation Level 3

8th April – Gangs & Criminal Exploitation Level 3

15th April – Serious Youth Violence & the impact of social media

The Objectives

  • Improve overall knowledge in order to safeguard vulnerable cohorts creating a positive impact on young people at risk.
  • Create an awareness to parents and carer’s of how they can better identify at early positive intervention opportunities for supporting vulnerable young people.
  • Enable parents and carer’s to better understand how they can effectively contribute to partnership information for the purposes of improving joint agency risk assessment, mitigation and collaborative responses.
  • Ensure that staff and young person’s play a key role in providing constructive feedback for ensuring improved delivery of the educational inputs over time in line with specific staff/department needs.
  • Be able to identify the signs and reasons why young people may affiliate or become groomed by exploitation groups such as gangs
  • Understand the reality of gangs serious youth violence
  • Relevant County and District structures and processes
  • Understanding the relationship between Metropolitan and adjoining affected areas
  • Better identifying safeguarding risks and experienced levels of trauma
  • Effectively addressing Internal Trafficking of Missing Children
  • Learn what is meant by County Lines and the context of how they operate
  • Explore the role of girls and how they become involved in CCE, gangs and exploitation
  • Be able to identify the earliest stages whether a young person is involved in CCE, gangs and serious violence
  • Be able to recognise the impact that COVID-19 has had on marginalised/vulnerable groups
  • Understand the various ways groups entrap and exploit vulnerable groups for example through debt bondage
  • Explain the realities & consequences of CCE.and the impact on the individual, their family, their future and the community
  • Have increased awareness of the role of social media in relation to CCE, Gangs and Group Violence and of the different platforms that exist and young people are cynically manipulated through social media.
  • Standard Referral Mechanisms (bespoke to each borough) research on commissioned services
  • County and District perspectives in more detail
  • Building effective information/intelligence sharing relationships and processes
  • Making objections to vulnerable placements and/or assessing risks
  • What to look for ‘signs of gang involvement’
  • Warning signs and indicators to identify young people who may be at risk or affected by gangs (in more detail)
  • How best to respond to vulnerable ‘gang affected’ clients
  • Relevant Case Studies