Welcome Young Advisors ...

Advising, helping & reaching-out:

This initiative was designed by the Department for Communities & Local Government and the charity Young Advisors. It trains young people from across England to be young people's champions; advising and demonstrating to adults, community leaders and decision-makers how to engage young people in community life, and in so doing are improving neighbourhoods.

For more information please contact Denise Fermor, the LT&RC training Manager in the office on 020-7928-5897.

Restorative Justice:

Southwark YAP:

Our work & priorities:

Kids are sometimes heading towards the wrong places, but Young Advisors are here to make sure they go to the right places:
Young people are excluded from communities;Young Advisors are here to make sure their opinions are heard.Young Advisors mean young people can feel like they have a say in what goes on around them.

The LT&RC employs a team of Young Advisors, for whom Jacqueline Macauley is the Southwark YAP lead.

Young Advisors can:
Sit on advisory panels;'Youth Proof' key documents;Help you make a decision about young people, use our voice;Promote the voice young people have;Participate in the decision making process.

Our CV so far:
4-Squares event (100+ people – Bringing generations together);Youth Proofed the Youth Participation Strategy;Visit to Department of Communities & Local Government;QE2 Youth Conference (supported & presented);Youth Proofed the Trading Standards Identity Card for Young People;Stop and Search evaluation (proposal to train +900 police in stop and search techniques);Supported the Damilola Taylor Trust Knife Crime event & the Enough is Enough conference.

The blight of domestic violence is sadly a feature of many lives. Restorative justice can help tackle it,
and is one of the many topics LT&RC offers
expert training on...find out more