The pandemic has brought lots of negative consequences for us, but there were some people, who benefitted from it. Young offenders for example got the chance to participate in an initiative that allowed them to gain a new qualification.
Leeds Youth Justice Service (YJS) has created an opportunity for young people to take part in activities like making a bird box or cooking a chocolate cake.
Young people also got accredited awards from the staff thanks to the YJS's partnership with AQA Unit Awards scheme.
These were the following:
- Making a wooden box
- Planning, preparing and baking a chocolate cake
- Creating zendoodles
- Emotional wellbeing
- Preparing simple meals
Each discription of the awards consisted of an entry level, a lerner style and a curriculum link.
The most vulnerable children were also provided with laptops and food parcels. In this report you can find out more about the work of the staff.
According to the operational manager at Leeds YJS, the biggest challange for their children is their own situation that has got worse due to the Covid-19 as some families have to face poverty, freezing cold and the loss of their income.
You might like..
0
13
The #Chances4Children campaign, launched by Children and Young People Now, aims to create a platform where practitioners, teams and leaders are able to share their experiences and innovative ideas about working with children and young people.…
0
16
How could a mask-wearing teddy bear make working with vulnerable children easier for social workers?
Many social workers (in the UK) face challenges on the job due to the drastic measures taken to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. They…
0
2
Creative Youth Network, a youth charity organization, has launched a project which aims to help young talented people develop their abilities in any field, through being apprentices of successful entrepreneurs or just by letting them grow in their…
0
6
Community Care reports on Isabelle Trowler’s (Chief social worker for children) and Yvette Stanley’s (national director for social care at Ofsted) opinion on the review of the children’s social care system led by Josh MacAlister. Trowler and Stanley…
0
11
During the pandemic, children hit strongly by Covid-19 have regressed.
According to the Ofsted schools watchdog, the consequences are the following:
there are some, who were potty-trained already before the lockdown, but no reverted to…
0
4
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 many people had to stay at home under certain conditions. The adverse effects of the lockdown on people’s mental health were already discussed and many psychological support centers became available to people in need.…
0
13
The current lockdown conditions provide the perfect environment for online child abuse. As families are forced to stay at home, parents need to balance their work with homeschooling and taking care of their children. Because of this, more children…
0
2
In February 2021, the Whatever It Takes (WIT) foundation will be launching a programme to reduce youth reoffending. The first scheme launches will be in Kingston-upon-Thames and Richmond, where WIT teamed up with the…
0
14
According to the warning of Just for Kids Law charity, county lines drug trafficking gangs have been grooming schoolchildren during the lockdown.
Based on the charities casework many children and young people have been excluded because of being…
0
Children in mental health wards are suffering from the consequences of Covid-19. Kamena Dorling, head of policy and advocacy at children’s rights charity Article 39, said “Every child detained in hospital has a right to an advocate", but a…
0
10
"The Lancet " the British medical journal published a report on pediatric pain.
A commission of specialists tested the individuals who deal with children to end what they depicted as the basic under treatment of torment in children,…
0
10
A report by Charles Geekie QC said chief scout Eddie Heath had groomed and attacked boys, aged 10 to 17, in the 1970s and it alleges that Chelesea officials must have "turned a blind eye to what they saw". Chelsea have now apologised “…
0
12
A report summarising short scrutiny visits to 35 prison warns of the strict restrictions in young offender institutions (YOIs). Children at these institutions face “a real risk of psychological decline”, says chief inspector Peter Clarke.
These…
0
10
Following the COVID-19 pandemic brought lockdown system, children have become an easy target for drug dealers to manipulate and being dragged into the dirty business of criminal communities, Manchester Evening News reports.
The easiest way for…
0
16
With UK closing the gates on 20 March 2020, children and their parents had to face the challenge of learning at home for a while.
The extent, to which it means a challenge for them, depends on the conditions of the child, as those from a…
