
Youth in the Community
Thu 28 Nov
|Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre
Join UEL, the Culture engine, RDLAC, Fight For Peace, the Woodcraft Folk and guest speakers to debate youth safety as well as sample activities for children and great food and drink.


Time & Location
28 Nov 2019, 19:00
Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre, Albert Rd, Royal Docks, London E16 2JB, UK
About the event
Youth in the Community
This Silvertown Session invites you to debate Youth in the Community from a range of viewpoints, including strategies for youth empowerment, critical thinking on youth crime prevention practice and neighbourhood policing, as well as local perspectives from community leaders on youth safety. We will also hear from Newham Council about the Mayor’s Youth Safety Board and invite you to have your say on these policies.
Join the Debate
Youth culture can play an incredibly important role in sustaining and reinventing the local community. Youth can bring together and refresh communities.
In the past decade, local communities have seen funding cuts to many youth services and crime prevention agencies supposed to help young people flourish and maintain stability in the community. The current rise in youth related violence is arguably a symptom of this decline leaving all of the community feeling increasingly unsafe.
Can this decline be…