Protecting Children and Young People from Exploitation and Harm - SERIOUS VIOLENCE TIER 1 UNIVERSAL SCHOOLS PROGRAMME

Description

Lambeth Council is seeking a suitably experienced organisation to work with schools across the borough to co-develop and deliver a service that will work towards ensuring fewer young people are drawn into or impacted by youth violence because they have the aspirations, confidence, and educational attainment to progress and achieve. The program will run from September 2025 to July 2027, with a view to extending the contract to July 2028. This two - year service will focus on primary, secondary, all-through schools, special schools, and secondary pupil referral units. Some of the key aims and outcomes include: • To ensure fewer young people are drawn into or impacted by youth violence in Lambeth. • Children and young people will feel heard and empowered to make positive choices in their education, employment, training and relationships. • Develop the self-confidence and self-esteem of children and young people in Lambeth and therefore giving them additional knowledge, skills and resilience to support them in their lives • Ensure children and young people know how to be safe online, understanding that social media is a platform whereby they can be influenced/exploited and that what they do online is ‘real life’, has an impact on others and is covered in Law. • Acknowledging that vulnerability can also lead to exploitation associated with domestic abuse, healthy relationships (i.e. Relationships, Sex and Health Education) and terrorism-related activity, the commissioned service will have to align with the programs currently being delivered across Lambeth’s schools to ensure there is continuity of messaging and a shared awareness and understanding of the current issues.