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Read all the latest news stories, blogs and policy updates from London Youth and across our network.
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FE News: Employment is key to addressing knife crime, say three youth organisations
25 March 2019In this piece in FE News, our Chief Executive Rosemary Watt-Wyness highlights the importance of community youth organisations in tackling youth violence. “Rising youth violence coincides with sustained cuts to youth services and fewer opportunities available to our young people. London’s Lost Youth Services report (2018) identified over £145 million lost from youth services across London since […]
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Siân Berry AM: London’s Lost Youth Services 2019
25 March 2019On 22nd March 2019, Siân Berry AM published London’s Lost Youth Services 2019, an updated version of her research from 2017 and 2018. Based on freedom of information requests, the report lays out the current state of youth services provided by the London boroughs. These budgets have reduced by 46% since 2011/12 and are at […]
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Children & Young People Now: Boost youth employment initiatives to tackle knife crime
20 March 2019Gabriella Jozwiak’s piece in Children & Young People Now looks at London Youth, IHEART, and Movement to Work coming together to highlight the connection between tackling youth violence and providing positive opportunities, particularly employment, for young people. Our chief executive, Rosemary Watt-Wyness, is quoted saying that young people can be inspired by the trusting relationships […]
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HuffPost: As Austerity Strips Public Services, These Volunteers Are Keeping Britain Running
26 February 2019HuffPost have covered the vital role that volunteers increasingly play in supporting their communities, and the public services that those communities rely on, which have been impacted by a decade of austerity. The article profiled Suzanne Toprak, who has been volunteering for 17 years with London Youth member Metro Judo Club in south London. Read the full […]
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport: Response to Champion London Youth
15 January 2019As part of our Champion London Youth campaign, we have been calling on our members and supporters to let the Youth Minister Mims Davies MP and other policymakers know that every young person deserves to have high quality, open access youth services in their local community. You can read our full letter below and the […]
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Guardian: ‘They think I’m a gangster’: the young black men caught in joblessness
07 December 2018Damien Gayle, writing in the Guardian in a series called Bias in Britain, has highlighted the state of racial bias and discrimination facing young people, particularly young black men, trying to enter employment. The article includes interviews with young people working with Hackney CVS, an associate member of London Youth, and London Youth’s Talent Match Croydon employability […]