Our resources are limited, and our funding restricted, which impacts the number of children that we can reach, to address this, last year we introduced our teacher and youth worker training package. Our training programmes are designed for learners who work with young people in a range of youth settings. Training focuses on issues related to crime and anti-social behaviour and links these to the secondary PSHE and citizenship curriculum. The issues covered reflect national and local priorities
and contain detailed and relevant information for school staff including references to practical lesson activities. The Training package is essentially a toolkit which we have created to support and assist education staff in their work with children, young people, and families. It provides information, advice, and links to resources specific to crime, including lesson plans for KS2-4. While the material addresses issues like the consequences of carrying a knife – it also aims to offer inspiration to children to
pursue positive alternatives, using real life stories of young people’s experiences as a basis. So far, we have delivered this training to 52 teachers and youth workers, who have been able to deliver lessons and reach out to approximately 3000 young people. These lessons have been met with great success, with teachers and youth workers giving us very positive feedback about how the materials have helped challenge inaccurate perceptions about crime, helped young people develop the confidence to resist peer pressure, and helped them to inspire young people to recognise positive role models. In the coming year we are looking forward to working with more schools going forward to deliver these materials. In the long-term we would like this to become safely and effectively integrated into the school curriculum – possibly within the PSHE education provision where we think it could make sense.