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WILLIAM -Trailer
Series 1: Criminal Exploitation
Show Title WILLIAM
Author Paul McKenzie
Production Rights FOAM20 LTD
Producer Paul McKenzie
Running Time 20 minutes
Workshop Time 60 minutes
Cast Size 5
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Delivery
Equipment can be brought on site and screened to assembles or smaller groups for workshops.
‘WILLIAM’ is a hard-hitting production that aims to raise awareness, kick-start conversations and build resilience around youth violence – with a focus on grooming and county lines – as part of a public health approach to tackling the issue – an issue that is seeing young people targeted. Children and young people involved with gangs and criminal exploitation need help and support. They might be victims of violence or pressured into doing things like stealing or carrying drugs or weapons. They might be abused, exploited and put into dangerous situations.
The production be targeted at two different groups:–
- Young people (year 13+)
- Parents, carers, teachers & professionals working with children & young people
WILLIAM is a young man with a great future as a professional footballer. He lives in a community that is suffering the impact of serious youth violence and grooming. Many of the youth are already aware that there are “olders” that target young people to join county lines.
William is the victim of this.
He is being pressured to sell drugs on his local estate. William is reluctant to continue and has chosen to confront his manipulative older. The story highlights the pressures that young people face and the choices they have to make.
William is also being pressured by his girlfriend to buy her gifts and he can only do this by selling drugs to raise the money.
This short film highlights the challenges involved in making the right decision to refuse the lure of groomers.
The short film aims to:
- Raise awareness around the risks and consequences of criminal explolitation in young people on the individual and on their friends, families and on the wider community
- Build resilience by raising awareness, creating a common language and kick-starting conversations around the influences, fears and pres
sures that can lead to the decision to hurt someone or to carry a knife and how these can be managed or avoided - Build resilience by raising awareness of and promoting the core skills (including but not limited to: self-confidence, self-esteem, risk assessment, emotional intelligence, empathy, decision making, recognising healthy relationships) that can be used help young people to navigate a whole host of issues, critical moments and adverse childhood experiences that they may encounter
- Raise awareness around the importance of seeking help and advice or telling someone if they are concerned about themselves, a friend or someone they know.
- This short film has been developed in consultation with young people, youth, social and health workers, charities, police forces, urban youth specialists and the families and friends of those tragically affected by youth violence in order to tackle this highly complex issue in an effective manner and with credible voices.
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POSITIVE MESSAGE
llr Nickie Aiken, London Councils’ Executive member for Schools and Children’s Services, said:
“People need to wake up to an inconvenient truth – recreational drug use creates demand for illegal substances that County Lines gangs exploit children and young people to meet.
“There are children as young as 12 on London’s streets who have post-traumatic stress disorder – just like soldiers returning from Afghanistan or Iraq – because of how they have been menaced and beaten by gang leaders.
“Yet middle-class drug users who likely buy organic focaccia, free trade coffee and pride themselves on ethical investments continue to use cocaine and other class A substances at the weekend with no thought of the misery that delivers the product.
“We all agree on the importance of stopping knife crime and keeping children and young people safe. This survey shows that by opening people’s eyes to the realities of drug use in our own streets and neighbourhoods, our own communities can play a greater role in tackling these challenges.”
