Celebrating Youth-Led Innovation: Building Mentoring Frameworks with Clear Pathways and Purpose At Youth Unity, we strongly believe in creating opportuniti ...
Welcome to the Youth Unity CIC news and updates page, where we share highlights from our work supporting young people at risk of exploitation or harm. Here you’ll find updates from our partnerships with local authorities, the Metropolitan Police Service, schools and youth services, as well as insights from our community youth work and one-to-one mentoring programmes, all focused on helping young people feel safer and build positive futures.
Police Christmas Choir
An Evening of Reflection and Partnership at Westminster Abbey Last night, members of the Youth Unity CIC team were honoured to attend the Metropolitan Police A ...
Views Case Management
Investing in Better Safeguarding and Smarter Systems At Youth Unity, young people are at the heart of everything we do. Safeguarding, trust and accountability ...
Kings Garden Party 2025
Youth Unity CIC at the King’s Garden Party — A Day We’ll Never Forget This year, Youth Unity CIC had the incredible honour of being invited to attend the King’ ...
Youth centre closures linked to greater risk of young people entering criminal justice system
Source Article: NYA Whilst youth services have been cut by 77% over more than a decade, violent offences among young people remain at unacceptably high levels ...
BEFFTA Award, Best Youth Organisation
We are thrilled to announce that Youth Unity has won the prestigious award for Best Organisation at the BEFFTA Global Awards 2024! The event, held on 26th Octob ...
Teachers ‘providing food and clothes’ for disadvantaged pupils
SOURCE: Rumeana Jahangir BBC News 25 April 2024 Teachers in the north west of England say they are having to go beyond their remit to give suppo ...
PodgeSports
Sports Podge, held on the 5th of May at the Oval, was an amazing event organised by Phil Jones and his team, an event that brought people together through th ...
Machetes and zombie knives could be banned in England and Wales
Machetes and zombie knives could be banned in England and Wales, with people selling them facing up to two years in jail, under government plans to close a leg ...
HOW TO OVERCOME THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Charlotte GoddardTuesday, February 1, 2022 Source: The Covid-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on the ‘digital divide’ which widens inequalities between ...
London violence: Children as young as 10 fear being stabbed
Source Link BBC News: By Jennifer McKiernan London set an unwelcome new record of 30 teenage stabbing homicides in 2021, while a third of all of England's s ...
London homicides driven by drugs and social media, study finds
Drugs, missed mental health sessions and social media usage are factors driving homicides, a study has found. SOURCE LINK BBC NEWS The London Violence Re ...
Time spent in blue spaces benefits children in later life, says study
SOURCE LINK THE GUARDIAN Exposure to spaces such as beaches and rivers leads to greater value being placed in natural settings, study finds Childhood day ...
A third of children have adult social media accounts – Ofcom
SOURCE LINK One in three children lie about their age to access adult content on social media, according to research commissioned by the regulator, Ofcom. ...
Children more unhappy with lives, schooling and appearance – research
The cost-of-living crisis is impacting families, a report said, while children are struggling following the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic. Source: ...
Helping and Talking to Your Child About the War in Ukraine
Helping Children and Young People to Make Sense of Distressing News As a global community, we have faced a turbulent few years, ruled chiefly by the COVID-1 ...
A mother’s story whose son was recruited to sell drugs
'I found out my son was dealing drugs, with my middle class mum friends buying cocaine off boys just like him' The boy bringing cocaine to the doo ...
Mayor invests in positive activities for young people this summer
City Hall is funding hundreds of positive activities to support thousands of young Londoners during the holidays and beyond London’s Violence Reduction Unit ...
Mayor reveals driving factors behind violence affecting young people and invests in support for almost 100,000 more young Londoners
City Hall publishes its most detailed analysis yet which lays bare the extent of the link between violence and poverty, deprivation and unemploymentLatest figu ...
Schools can tackle bullying by teaching children anger management and empathy, study finds
Source: Will Hazell Education CorrespondentSeptember 2, 2021 4:34 pm(Updated 5:36 pm) About 800,000 children are bullied each year – but research s ...
Pupils face income loss of £46,000 due to Covid disruption
Children and young people face losing thousands of pounds in earnings during their lifetime from the impact of the pandemic on lost learning, according to new ...
Inclusion Week 2021
Source: Our top tips for National Inclusion Week 2021 As National Inclusion Week draws closer, we are gearing up back at Inclusive Employers to ensure w ...
Hard Call Saves Lives Campaign
We are all mothers whose sons were stabbed to death. We know people find it hard to call and report information on knife crime, but when our sons were murde ...
Met Police insists London knife crime is ‘not out of control’ despite 13 teenagers stabbed to death this year
A Metropolitan Police commander has insisted London knife crime “is not out of control”, despite 13 teenagers having lost their lives to fatal stabbings so far ...
Life These Days – Young People & Covid-19
Paul McKenzie is part of the Youth Unity team was part of this amazing project and held a series of workshops working with young people who have mental he ...
Tackling violence against women a priority despite criticism
Source: BBC Priti Patel has insisted the government is committed "at the highest level" to tackling violence against women following the death of Sarah Ever ...
Sarah Everard: New safety measures after killing
Source: BBC New safety measures after killing "Immediate steps" aimed at improving safety for women and girls in England and Wales have been announced by N ...
Revealed: Drug Gangs Are Stealing Children From Loving Families – Even In Lockdown
A ruthless child-grooming gang flew a boy back to Britain so he could continue dealing drugs after his desperate parents sent him to Kenya for his own safety, ...
Funding cuts hitting UK youth services as demand grows, report says
Survey finds 66% of 1,759 organisations face more demand but 83% say funding has decreased youth services are failing to meet increasing demand during ...
How the Stigma of Mental Health Is Spread by Mass Media
n the aftermath of an unconscionable act of random violence, many people are inclined to label the perpetrator “crazy.” Although the criminal may have a m ...
NYAS calls on candidates in police election to pledge to protect care-experienced children and young people
Care-experienced children make up half of those placed in youth custody and children in care in England are six times more likely than other young people to be ...
COVID-19: School closures could cost each child £40,000 in lost lifetime earnings
Source Sky News Pupils who have lost six months of schooling can expect to lose approximately £40,000 each in income over their lifetime. The cost of los ...
Coronavirus doctor’s diary: We’re getting self-harming 10-year-olds in A&E
Source: BBC The pandemic has had a deep impact on children, who are arriving in A&E in greater numbers and at younger ages after self-harming or taking ...