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Kids on Prices of Facilities 09/04/2022

Kids on Prices of Facilities Sherifa asks some young people at a youth centre what changes they would like to see. One of the answers was pretty interesting, and at its heart scrutinises the effect of government cuts to community facilities and the communities themselves /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24270372

It doesn't make sense... 09/03/2022

It doesn't make sense... A young person talks about how it can be next to impossible to defend yourself once accused of wrongdoing at school /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24264846

Get Yourself Away 08/28/2022

Get Yourself Away A mother gives advice to girls who find themselves in a situation: "Remove yourself from that situation. Don't get dragged into it; don't get caught up into it." /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24189717

You Need a Strong Mindset 08/25/2022

You Need a Strong Mindset When you come out of prison how do you stop yourself from going back to your old ways? JJ gives some advice from his own personal experience /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24159996

You Need a Strong Mindset 08/25/2022

You Need a Strong Mindset When you have just come out of prison, it's easy to start falling back into the old ways. But you don't want that. Apart from family support, JJ talks about determination to change. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24159738

Talk To A Teacher 08/22/2022

Talk To A Teacher JJ gives some advice to young people, about how there will always be some teacher who is ready to listen to you, and who will give you some good advice when you need it. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24136815

Why Are Young People Exploited? 08/19/2022

Why Are Young People Exploited? Why do you think, a lot of the youth nowadays are getting exploited? Do you know what? I think it is a lot to do with, first of all like self-esteem, confidence. I'm not blaming parents; not all parents are bad, some parents struggle, you know? I think that the family needs more support. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24112962

Exclusion Doesn't Work 08/18/2022

Exclusion Doesn't Work In a discussion held with some young people at a youth club, Freddy from The Childrens Society comments on how schools' use of exclusion only makes the problem worse: Audio: "So with exploitation you can have, like, one of the reasons a child may be sort of misbehaving or acting out, that may be because they're being exploited, and the school don't know that and they just get kicked out. And then when a child is kicked out they're obviously more vulnerable to being exploited because they're not at school; they've got nothing else to do. So that's why we're also working on exclusions because it doesn't work. I think when you strip it back, excluding a child from anything is never going to lead to a good outcome. " /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24101034

Schools not recognising SEN 08/18/2022

Schools not recognising SEN A young person talks with a representative from the Children's Society about how his ADHD wasn't recognised at school for years. This is a common problem which needs to be identified more quickly. Too many children are slipping through the system undiagnosed. audio text: "Yeah I used to be in detention for like fidgeting and stuff, stuff like that. But I couldn't help it because whenever I've got stuff in my hand I'm either doing something naughty in class or just doing, yeah, naughty stuff in school and stuff like that." "One of the big issues is undiagnosed special educational needs or disabilities. So children are getting excluded and the schools haven't realised that there's actually something bigger going on here. ...like I'm sure like with your experience you might have been told, 'ah, you don't fit in, and you don't really work in the school', and it's you're made to feel that you dont' fit in, but it's actually the system that doesn't fit you." /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24090909

School's an Escape 08/16/2022

School's an Escape Sherifa explains how she thinks that schools are often failing students, because they are often too focused on their own reputation /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24064641

Love Yourself 08/10/2022

Love Yourself I think for me when it comes to girls, self-love is the most important thing. And as long as you have that self-love and respect for yourself, the right things will come, if that makes sense. You will make the right decision /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24015834

Tell Your Parents 08/09/2022

Tell Your Parents There's some people who have always got your back, no matter what. Your parents are there for you. If they are then you can talk to them when you are in a tight spot. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/24001293

Running with the Wrong Crowd 08/08/2022

Running with the Wrong Crowd /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/23989230

Tell your parents what is going on 08/08/2022

Tell your parents what is going on /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/23986329

I Knew My Son Had Been Stabbed 07/26/2022

I Knew My Son Had Been Stabbed The mother of a young person knew he had been stabbed. She called the police and they found him under a bridge, fortunately still alive, but with 6 stab wounds. She recounts the incident. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/23870268

Stick to Your Guns 07/25/2022

Stick to Your Guns A young person who has been through the system gives some hard-won advice on how to pursue your dreams. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/23854611

Running with the Wrong Crowd 07/24/2022

Running with the Wrong Crowd A young person talks about his experience, and how running with the wrong crowd quickly got out of hand. It was only then that he realised something about his friends. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/23841857

Doreen - show resepect 02/03/2022

Doreen - show resepect Doreen Sinclair-Collins talks about how treating people with respect can get young people to respect you back /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/22004573

Rose - Even other students begin to label 02/03/2022

Rose - Even other students begin to label Rose talks about how that 'PRU' label sticks, and how people will label you as a bad person regardless of the background to your situation. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/22004510

Rose - once youre in a PRU youre labelled 02/03/2022

Rose - once youre in a PRU youre labelled Rose from the School Exclusion Campaign talks about how once excluded that kids feel like they have been sentenced. This often makes them give up on themselves feeling like, "what's the point?" as society has already labelled them. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/22004441

DC - easy for a chool to wash their hands 01/30/2022

DC - easy for a chool to wash their hands Joseph Duncan from Youth Futures talks about how schools are keen to "wash their hands" of a child they see as a problem. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21955655

Children not part of conversation 01/30/2022

Children not part of conversation A young person talks about how she has heard of many causes of decisions made about a child's future without the child being consulted in any way. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21954353

Vicious circle 01/25/2022

Vicious circle https://letstalkknifecrime.org/ /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21897620

Parents last to know when a child is excluded 01/22/2022

Parents last to know when a child is excluded Doreen from Elevated Minds talks about how parents are the last people to know if a child is facing exclusion. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21857165

'No point in complaining' 01/14/2022

'No point in complaining' A young person is asked by a police officer if they would make a complaint if they were mistreated by a police officer. The young people at this workshop felt that the police wouldn't take their complaints seriously, and would try to cover up for their colleagues if wrongdoing emerged to have taken place. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21778613

"What can we do to help stop knife crime?" 01/13/2022

"What can we do to help stop knife crime?" Chris asks young people at Bede Youth Adventure Project what can be done to help stop knife crime. The children ask for more funding for youth clubs and education to tell people that once you get involved in gangs and knife crime you can never get away from it. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21763688

talking to families vs youth workers 01/13/2022

talking to families vs youth workers In a Let's Talk session held at Bede Youth Club Chris talked to young people about how they felt talking to their families about knife crime. We discovered that most children felt more comfortable and less judged when talking to a youth worker. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21763592

Donya - Seeing the strength in young people2 01/10/2022

Donya - Seeing the strength in young people2 Donya talks about how young people are often stereotyped or labelled and young people often feel judged by society, teachers, etc. She says it is far more positive and better to say, "What are your strengths?" and look at people from that perspective. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21728669

Doreen - Your Map Is Not Your Territory 01/07/2022

Doreen - Your Map Is Not Your Territory Doreen Sinclair from Elevated MInds talks about one of the messages they have for young people they are working with: that with a change of mindset they can achieve much more than they may have previously imagined. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21704306

If you're raised on an estate 12/23/2021

If you're raised on an estate Sharifa talks about how mentoring can help people who suffer from low self-esteem or lack of confidence stemming from where they were brought up, and the change of mindset that needs to occur to remedy this. /episode/index/show/letstalkknifecrime/id/21584447

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