Due to rising, national demand for resources from Schools, Children’s services, youth groups and public services. LNK have spent the last few years strategising with teacher’s, young people and various people within the community with lived experience of youth violence to create a cost effective way to support and strengthen the knowledge for youth leaders to feel better equipped to deliver resources as an intervention for young people as well as a support network, offering  both, 1-1 and peer support. 

“In the year to March 2022 the total number of knife crime offences committed by​ 10-17 year olds in England and Wales was 3,490”​

Since the programme has been delivering training online in July 2020 in the borough of Croydon, LNK have -

  • Delivered teacher training and resources to 460 teachers
  • Who in turn have delivered the resources to 8877 students
  • Following delivery of resources both teachers and LNK mentors identified 349 students as being at risk of involved in youth crime and referred these young people to specialised services.

"The most effective programme I've heard of in recent times"

The teachers feel better equipped to -

  • Confident to use the resources in the classroom to start conversation around youth violence.
  • Identify young people who are/or at risk of becoming involved in youth violence and seeking help with community partners. 
  • More informed about the consequences for a young person becoming involved in youth violence.
  • More informed about why and how a young person could be at risk of becoming involved in youth violence.

"Excellent delivery the programme was moving and informative"

Young people feel better equipped to -

  • Make better, more informed, conscious decisions about getting involved with youth violence
  • More informed of the laws around youth violence and the significant impact it could have on their life.
  • Feel better able to approach their teacher if they have concerns about the risk of becoming involved in youth violence.
  • More informed about future life choices.

"Very effective and reassuring that support is there"

"Purpose behind it is brilliant and this feeds into delivery/content"

(Feedback from teachers following LNK educate resources training)

With ultimate aims to train the teachers to be better equipped to raise the subject of youth violence and identify young people who are at risk before they are excluded from mainstream school and prevent them from becoming involved in the criminal system, therefore offering them better life chances.

“Schools, children’s services, police and the NHS need to be working together proactively, not passing children from agency to agency.”

Anne Longfield, The Children’s Commissioner for England      

Whilst working for 15 years dependant on fundraising, small pots of funding and grants. We soon realised that short term funding can only achieve short term effects. LNK have worked on a long term model, which asks schools to contribute as part of their teacher training budget to help create a collective sustainable model, which will not only make the model a long term commitment for LNK, but also a collective programme for all users to be able to contribute to the sharing of best practice.  Therefore creating an eco-system, that can be easily tracked, whilst measuring the impact of the programme.

"Excellent will be great to use in PSHE work and tutor time"