Hate Crime: What you can do to support your students

Big Youth Conversation asked young people whether they had experienced or witnessed hate crime. Shockingly nearly half of them said yes, whilst 18% said they weren't sure if they had. 

Given these stats, this quick video from the Met police, is a good starter for talking about hate crime with your students, as well as these resources which could help start the conversation in your school. 

The Councils Connecting Communities Team will be announcing a community-led initiative to tackle hate crime in the coming weeks that we want schools to be involved in. Stay Tuned.

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Shout out for Streetbase!

50% of young people told the council that they felt unsafe to go out on their own, whilst 9% felt unsafe to go out at all.

Our youth-led Streetbase programme will hopefully make your young people feel better about getting out and about. It is a peer-to-peer engagement programme, run by young people. 

Targeting hotspot crime areas in Waltham Forest, we engage young people signposting them to services or activities. 

We will be in a handful of schools during our Opportunities to Flourish week - if you'd like us to visit your school in a lunch time during that week, please contact our Streetbase lead Katy Thompson.

Find out more by emailing Katy.

But what is a council?

As part of the Big Conversation we talked to all the young people about the council, but we found that lots weren't too sure what they did. 

This was the same story in May - at our BYC Be A Councillor Hackathon. With the help of ShoutOut UK, local MC Lemzi, and the LGA, 10 schools attended and young people spoke about what politics meant, what the council did, and came up with ideas to get involved. 

One idea caught their imaginations; Councillor Surgeries in Schools. Given these results, we will be supporting Councillors to reach out to schools this term to run sessions in your school. Stay Tuned!

Find out other ways in which the council is engaging young people in the work they do in our blogs about young advisors, YIAG, Care Leavers, the Voice in Partnership Group and Life Chances Youth Taskforce here.

Future Thinking: Opportunities to Flourish

Peers were asked what might help them in their future, the top answers were:

1. Careers advice
2. Work experience, traineeships and part-time jobs
3. Finance advice

This reflected last years results and so the council are hosting an Opportunities to Flourish Week. between 14 to 18 October, please share the digital brochure with your students and encourage them to take part in the opportunities on offer. 

Schools can sign up to have a number of sessions and talks in their schools, for more information please visit the Opportunities to Flourish Week page on the Hub.

Lets talk money: FREE info session for your students

40% of young people didn't feel like they get enough advice on money issues and on top of that 28% didn't feel comfortable about having a conversation about money.

Young people agreed that it was one of the top 3 things that would help them most in future. So as part of the Opportunities to Flourish Week, your students can sign up to a free session on finance.

Spaces are limited, so get them to sign up quick. Find out more by emailing Life Chances.

Barclays Life Skills programme also have a range of resources including lesson plans that you can make use of.

A Climate Emergency

43% of Young People told the council that there wasn’t enough advice on climate change. We want you to tell your young people that the council is taking action, and that there will be opportunities for them to take action

In April 2019, the council declared a ‘Climate Emergency’ and committed to launching a Commission to help shape our local response to this global challenge and to produce a set of ‘asks’ for our regional and national politicians.

The Climate Emergency Commission was officially launched by Cllr Loakes and one of its co-chairs, Syed Ahmed, Director of Energy for London at Walk-in-Stow on Sunday 22 September and the first meeting of the Commission took place this week. 

To keep up to date on how you and your young people can get involved, sign up to our new Climate Emergency Newsletter.

Connecting Communities Networks

You can get involved in our Connecting Communities Networks in Chingford, Leyton, Leytonstone and Walthamstow – email Connecting Communities to find out more.

ESOL sessions

Need help with a student or family who have English as a Second Language (ESOL)? 

Find out more about sessions to support them here.

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