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Richard Taylor obituary

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 26 March - 12:58

Father of Damilola whose mission was to fight knife crime and provide support for disadvantaged young people

Richard Taylor, who has died aged 75 after suffering from prostate cancer, spent more than two decades ensuring that something positive could emerge from the fatal stabbing of his 10-year-old son Damilola.

When visiting the stairwell on an estate in Peckham, south London, where Damilola was stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle and left to bleed to death in November 2000, Taylor visibly shook with grief.

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‘Parents didn’t want their kids to be here’: Inside the troubled London school that stopped excluding pupils and restored calm

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 2 March - 10:06

Headteacher Alan Streeter has turned around Beacon High School, a deprived secondary with a reputation for violence and 300 suspensions a year

When headteacher Alan Streeter arrived at Beacon High school in Islington, north London, in 2018 the whole place felt “very tense”. Violence was a serious problem and there were 300 suspensions a year as staff wrestled to control it.

Streeter, the fifth head at the school in three years, was faced with “the most stark anti-school feeling” he had encountered in three decades working in London state schools.

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How a pioneering Scottish violence reduction unit achieved radical change

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 25 February - 15:00

Units using Glasgow approach prevented 3,220 hospital admissions, survey estimates, but long-term funding needed

Specialist units across England and Wales that take a public health approach to youth violence have prevented an estimated 3,220 hospital admissions for violent injury since they were introduced in 2018.

But they will only match the radical change achieved by the pioneering Scottish violence reduction unit (VRU) that inspired them if the government commits to long-term funding and support.

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‘It’s on our doorstep’: Bristol’s fearful parents seek answers after three knife deaths in three weeks

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 24 February - 12:02

As teenage victims are mourned across the English city, some believe the return of youth centres would keep children safer

Terre Baptiste has been checking her teenage son’s whereabouts compulsively since a 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed two weeks ago in a park a mile away from their home in the east of Bristol.

“It is very worrying,” says Baptiste, in her living room. “Bristol isn’t a perfect city. But there weren’t stabbings one after the other. It was few and far between. Now it is on our doorstep.”