Support for vulnerable young people in serious violence hotspots
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Youth violence Gangs Exploitation
  • Dec 17, 2021
Children are being chaperoned to and from school to deter stabbings and gang violence in new trial scheme
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Chaperones Gangs Youth violence Knife crime Safety
  • Dec 13, 2021
Support for vulnerable young people in serious violence hotspots
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Safeguarding Exploitation Gangs
  • Dec 2, 2021
We need better systems to stop marginalised teenagers falling into the hands of criminal gangs
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Safeguarding Gangs Criminal activity
  • Dec 2, 2021
Crime 'hotspot' schools to get county line gang support
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Safeguarding County lines Gangs
  • Dec 2, 2021
Gangs and sexual exploitation: Alert as school referrals plummet
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Exploitation Gangs Referrals Safeguarding
  • Nov 3, 2021
Anne Longfield launches commission to protect children from gangs
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Gangs Youth violence Safeguarding
  • Sep 9, 2021
Gang violence ‘is top concern for third of London parents’
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Gangs Youth violence Safety
  • Sep 9, 2021
Longfield to lead independent commission on gangs and criminal exploitation
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Gangs Anne Longfield Exploitation
  • Aug 9, 2021
Gangs and violent crimes can 'wreck the lives' of British children
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Gangs Youth violence
  • Jul 14, 2021
Gangs warning for pupils missing majority of school
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School attendance Pupil absence Coronavirus Disruption Gangs Safeguarding
  • Jun 28, 2021
Fifth of UK victims of criminal exploitation are children, research reveals
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Crime Exploitation Drugs Gangs
  • Apr 8, 2021
Drug gangs ‘using social media to groom young people’
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Drug dealing Gangs Social media Online grooming
  • Mar 29, 2021
Reducing school exclusions key to tackling youth violence and criminal gang exploitation
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Pupil exclusions Behaviour management Youth violence Criminal activity Gangs Exploitation
  • Feb 9, 2021
ASCL responds to Children’s Commissioner’s report on gangs
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Gangs School closures Safeguarding
  • Feb 6, 2021
Hidden horror of Britain’s ‘lost’ children vanishing from our schools then being groomed by drug gangs & sex beasts
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Coronavirus Vulnerable School attendance Pupil absence Safeguarding Grooming Gangs
  • Dec 1, 2020
Exploitation by county lines gangs increased during lockdown, government figures show
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Exploitation Gangs County lines Lockdown
  • Sep 18, 2020
Digital skills training tackles risk of youth violence
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Digital skills Gangs Youth violence
  • Aug 6, 2020
Covid-19: Vulnerable teens may "never return to education"
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Coronavirus School closures Disadvantaged Vulnerable Grooming Gangs
  • Jul 8, 2020
Children’s commissioner warns 120,000 teenagers at risk of ‘falling off the radar’
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Coronavirus School closures Disadvantaged Vulnerable Grooming Gangs
  • Jul 7, 2020
Teenagers at risk of becoming easy prey for criminal gangs amid pandemic, children's commissioner warns
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Coronavirus School closures Vulnerable Disadvantaged Grooming Gangs
  • Jul 7, 2020
Thousands of teens are at risk of slipping into a world of gangs and drugs due to lockdown
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Coronavirus School closures Vulnerable Disadvantaged Gangs Grooming
  • Jul 7, 2020
Re-engage vulnerable teens to prevent ‘lost generation’, says children’s commissioner
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School closures Coronavirus Gangs Grooming Vulnerable Disadvantaged
  • Jul 7, 2020
England's vulnerable teenagers at risk of 'falling off the radar'
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Coronavirus School closures Gangs Grooming Disadvantaged Vulnerable
  • Jul 7, 2020
Thousands of 'lost' secondary students may never return
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Coronavirus School closures Disadvantaged Vulnerable Gangs Grooming
  • Jul 7, 2020
Coronavirus could create 'lost generation' of vulnerable teenagers
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Coronavirus Vulnerable Disadvantaged School closures Grooming Gangs
  • Jul 7, 2020
120,000 teenagers at risk of never returning to full-time education, Children’s Commissioner warns
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Coronavirus School closures Gangs Grooming Disadvantaged Vulnerable
  • Jul 7, 2020
Left behind generation: Heads tell of lockdown toll on 'shellshocked' pupils as they raise fears over gang grooming
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Coronavirus Lockdown Grooming Gangs
  • Jul 6, 2020
Drug gangs on 'recruitment drive' during lockdown
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Drugs Gangs School closures Safeguarding
  • Jun 2, 2020
Police warn young teenagers could be recruited in 'large numbers' by county lines drugs gangs
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Criminal activity Gangs Coronavirus School reopening School attendance
  • May 19, 2020
Fears of gang risk for Year 7-9 students not in school
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Coronavirus School reopening School attendance Safeguarding Gangs Criminal activity
  • May 19, 2020
Fears for children not safe at home or exposed to gangs during coronavirus lockdown
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Coronavirus Safeguarding Safety Health Gangs
  • Apr 2, 2020
Drug gangs spread coronavirus crimewave | Rachel Sylvester
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Coronavirus School closures Safeguarding Drugs Gangs
  • Mar 30, 2020
County lines: Hampshire schools pay private firms for sniffer dogs
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County lines Drug dealing Gangs
  • Mar 9, 2020
Drop in young people on London gang violence database
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Gangs Youth violence
  • Feb 18, 2020
Children's Society gets £120,000 to help fight county lines exploitation
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County lines Safeguarding Grooming Gangs
  • Jan 13, 2020
EU report highlights 'extensive abuse' of vulnerable children by county lines drugs gangs
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County lines Drug dealing Gangs
  • Nov 27, 2019
Academic curriculum 'alienates pupils and fuels gangs’
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Curriculum Gangs Youth violence
  • Nov 18, 2019
Councils dealing with more children at risk of gang involvement and trafficking
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Gangs Safeguarding Asylum seekers
  • Oct 31, 2019
Rise in child slavery victims attributed to county lines gangs
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County lines Drug dealing Gangs Slavery
  • Oct 18, 2019
'County-lines gangs fuelling' child slavery rise
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County lines Drug dealing Gangs Youth violence
  • Oct 18, 2019
Gang forced 40 children in one school to sell drugs
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Gangs County lines Drug dealing
  • Aug 23, 2019
ADCS annual conference: Child protection and safeguarding key to tackling gangs
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Safeguarding Gangs Child protection
  • Jul 5, 2019
Children as young as seven exploited by county lines gangs
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Gangs Criminal activity Exploitation Vulnerable Safeguarding
  • Jul 5, 2019
Knife crime strategy too focused on gangs, says ex-police chief
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Knife crime Gangs Safeguarding
  • Jul 5, 2019
Teen drug-dealing convictions up two-thirds in five years in England and Wales
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Drug dealing Substance abuse Gangs Pupil exclusions
  • Apr 30, 2019
School exclusions for drugs and alcohol at ten-year high as 'county lines' gangs are blamed
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Pupil exclusions Drug use Substance abuse Gangs
  • Apr 30, 2019
Girls in gangs 'failed by authorities'
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Gangs Girls Funding
  • Apr 25, 2019
Early interventions could reduce violent crime
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Early intervention Knife crime Violence Grooming Gangs Pupil exclusions Mental health
  • Apr 23, 2019
Ireland: Gangs paying students to launder criminals’ money
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Ireland Money laundering Gangs
  • Apr 11, 2019
Gangs: A national emergency
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Gangs Vulnerable Knife crime Safeguarding
  • Apr 3, 2019
Growing up with gangs, poverty and knife crime (podcast)
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Podcast Gangs Vulnerable Poverty Knife crime Funding
  • Mar 18, 2019
Youth work academy launches with training to tackle gang crime
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Youth services Training Gangs Criminal activity Violence
  • Mar 14, 2019
Police commissioners call for ‘off-rolling’ to be outlawed and a renewed focus on exclusions
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Off-rolling Pupil exclusions Knife crime Gangs Criminal activity
  • Mar 13, 2019
London Bloodbath: Pupils told to take knives to school so they get expelled and join gangs
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Knife crime Safeguarding Gangs Criminal activity Expulsion Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 13, 2019
Gangs force children to take knives to school for the 'sole purpose' of getting them expelled
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Knife crime Expulsion Pupil exclusions Safeguarding Gangs
  • Mar 13, 2019
Gangs urge pupils to carry knives at school so they will be expelled
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Gangs Knife crime Expulsion Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 13, 2019
Gangs target SEND pupils to sell drugs
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Drugs Gangs SEND Special needs Vulnerable
  • Mar 8, 2019
Knife crime and school exclusions are symptoms of a wider malaise | Sonia Sodha
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Knife crime Pupil exclusions Gangs Violence Criminal activity
  • Mar 8, 2019
Hinds defends heads over exclusions and knife-crime claims
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Pupil exclusions Knife crime Gangs Violence Criminal activity
  • Mar 7, 2019
Khan and crime chiefs tie stabbings to school exclusion
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Pupil exclusions Knife crime Gangs Violence Criminal activity
  • Mar 7, 2019
Fact check: What are the links between school exclusions and knife crime?
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Pupil exclusions Knife crime Gangs Violence Criminal activity
  • Mar 7, 2019
'Broken’ school exclusion system linked to knife crime surge, police chiefs warn Theresa May
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Pupil exclusions Knife crime Gangs Violence Criminal activity
  • Mar 7, 2019
Knife crime: Are school exclusions to blame?
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Knife crime Pupil exclusions Violence Gangs Criminal activity
  • Mar 7, 2019
'Broken' school exclusion system linked to knife crime, police chiefs warn May
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Pupil exclusions Knife crime Violence Gangs Criminal activity
  • Mar 7, 2019
'Your comments are truly disappointing' - an open letter to Sadiq Khan
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Knife crime Gangs Violence Criminal activity Off-rolling Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 7, 2019
Police chiefs link off-rolling to knife crime
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Off-rolling Pupil exclusions Gangs Criminal activity Knife crime Violence
  • Mar 7, 2019
PM urged to fix school exclusion system to tackle knife crime
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Knife crime Violence Gangs Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 7, 2019
Our comments on correlation between exclusions and knife crime
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Knife crime Pupil exclusions Criminal activity Violence Gangs Vulnerable
  • Mar 7, 2019
Ban on off-rolling among calls to tackle youth crime
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Off-rolling Youth crime Criminal activity Knife crime Violence Gangs Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 7, 2019
Knife crime: Excluded pupils 'sucked into criminality'
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Knife crime Pupil exclusions Gangs Criminal activity Violence
  • Mar 7, 2019
Safeguarding warning over the 27,000 children involved in gang activity across England
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Safeguarding Gangs Knife crime Violence Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 6, 2019
Council to probe suggested link between knife crime and exclusions
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Knife crime Violence Gangs Pupil exclusions
  • Mar 6, 2019
Case review highlights early help failures in Croydon
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Safeguarding Vulnerable Gangs Drug use Pupil support
  • Feb 28, 2019
Hold schools ‘responsible’ for excluded pupils who join gangs, says children’s commissioner
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Pupil exclusions Gangs Accountability Safeguarding
  • Feb 28, 2019
27,000 children in gangs, with exclusions seen as a trigger
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Gangs Pupil exclusions
  • Feb 28, 2019
Excluded pupils blamed for knife violence
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Pupil exclusions Gangs Knife crime
  • Feb 28, 2019
Majority of child gang members unknown to councils, commissioner warns
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Gangs Vulnerable Safeguarding
  • Feb 27, 2019
Police plea to schools to cut Northamptonshire gang crime
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Gangs Grooming Crime
  • Feb 15, 2019
Drug gangs groom young children to run county lines
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Drugs Gangs Grooming
  • Feb 6, 2019
Beyond the gate: Addressing gang violence
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Gangs Violence Safeguarding Safety
  • Dec 7, 2018
Call to end unnecessary criminalisation of children in care
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Criminalisation Looked-after Care leavers Gangs Drugs
  • Nov 27, 2018
We risk losing an entire generation of children to drugs gangs | Nickie Aiken
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Gangs Drugs Criminal activity Pupil exclusions School attendance
  • Nov 20, 2018
Private school pupils are being recruited by county lines drug gangs, official report warns
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Private schools Exploitation Drugs Gangs
  • Nov 14, 2018
Taskforce warns of risk to children from 'county lines' gangs
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Safeguarding Exploitation Gangs Drugs Private schools
  • Nov 14, 2018
Private school pupils being groomed by ‘county lines’ drug gangs, report warns
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Private schools Safeguarding Gangs Drugs
  • Nov 14, 2018
Drug gangs targeting private school pupils, warns Ofsted
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Ofsted Drugs Gangs Amanda Spielman
  • Nov 14, 2018
Ofsted chief fires warning on drug gangs which are recruiting children as young as 12 years old
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Gangs Drugs Safeguarding Ofsted Amanda Spielman
  • Nov 14, 2018
Gangs plant knives in bags to get pupils expelled
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Gangs Knife crime Expulsion Grooming Pupil exclusions
  • Nov 12, 2018
Ofsted: Drugs gangs exploiting zero-tolerance discipline
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Ofsted Gangs
  • Nov 11, 2018
Ofsted London: schools need to do more to tackle knife crime
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Ofsted London Gangs
  • Nov 11, 2018
Home Secretary announces recipients of Early Intervention Youth Fund
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Early intervention Criminal activity Gangs Safeguarding
  • Nov 10, 2018
Damian Hinds interview: I don’t want kids to carry knives . . . teachers have to be more involved
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Damian Hinds Gangs
  • Nov 10, 2018
Head teachers should not be allowed to expel pupils because they will end up in gangs, says former Education Secretary Kenneth Baker
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Knife crime Gangs Pupil exclusions Expulsion Life chances Primary Secondary
  • Nov 2, 2018
Cut heads' power to expel, urges ex-education secretary
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Pupil exclusions Social mobility Gangs Headteachers
  • Nov 1, 2018
Excluded pupils 'at risk of grooming by gangs'
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Pupil exclusions Gangs Knife crime Grooming PRUs School places
  • Oct 30, 2018
Barnardo's: Excluded children at risk of knife crime
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Knife crime Pupil exclusions Behaviour Grooming PRUs School places Gangs
  • Oct 30, 2018
Children who are expelled from school are at risk of being drawn into 'county lines' gangs, Barnardo's warns
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Gangs Pupil exclusions PRUs School places Behaviour Grooming
  • Oct 30, 2018
How can we address gang culture In schools?
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Gangs
  • Oct 28, 2018
Shot boy, 14, told of fear for his life
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Gangs Secondary
  • Oct 19, 2018
Drug gangs 'target excluded pupils'
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Pupil exclusions Drugs Gangs PRUs
  • Sep 30, 2018
School exclusions 'driving gang violence as groups target vulnerable pupils'
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Pupil exclusions Gangs Vulnerable
  • Sep 29, 2018
Eton pupils 'have gone street' and style themselves after London gangs
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Eton Gangs
  • Aug 4, 2018
School exclusions ‘put children at risk of gang grooming’
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Off-rolling Pupil exclusions Gangs
  • Jul 15, 2018
Daily roundup 25 June: Energy drinks, psychotherapy, and gangs
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Health Wellness Obesity Mental health Gangs
  • Jun 25, 2018
'History helps students to explore gang fears'
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History Gangs
  • Jun 13, 2018
London college students taught how to stay away from gangs
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Gangs Students London
  • May 24, 2018
£1 million of Home Office funding to boost fight against knife crime
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Knife crime Funding Gangs Safeguarding
  • May 18, 2018
Schools told to protect pupils from 'county lines'
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Safeguarding Gangs Drugs
  • May 17, 2018
Scottish success story as charity saves teenagers from a life as gang enforcers
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Charities Gangs
  • May 17, 2018
Daily roundup 9 May: Gangs database, child slavery, and charity chief
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Gangs Discrimination
  • May 9, 2018
Former schools chief blames rise in gangs on 'dads who don't care'
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Michael Wilshaw Gangs Violence
  • May 2, 2018
Cuts to school support services make children more vulnerable to gang violence, world’s best teacher Andria Zafirakou says
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Funding Disadvantaged pupils Vulnerable Gangs Student support Violence
  • Apr 18, 2018
How school expulsions could be fuelling the rise in youth violence
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Expulsion Pupil exclusions Behaviour Knife crime Gangs Violence
  • Apr 17, 2018
Street violence: societal change is needed
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Violence Gangs Knife crime
  • Apr 16, 2018
Arts can help children avoid a lifetime of gang crime, says $1m prize-winning teacher
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Arts Mental health Curriculum Gangs
  • Apr 14, 2018
How a spike in school exclusions could be fuelling knife crime in London
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Pupil exclusions Knife crime London Behaviour Gangs
  • Apr 14, 2018
'Teach pupils to avoid gangs' - children's commissioner
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BBC Schools Gangs
  • Jul 30, 2017