Interesting and sympathetic discussion on The Rest Is Politics on prison rehabilitation. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL and Rory Stewart both spoke well - it would be even more positive to speak similarly about prehabilitation - prevention - even more valuable

Some wonderful young people from across the UK represented THE HOPE COLLECTIVE yesterday at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport supporting the national youth strategy planning #LegacyOfHope

It is an absolute honour to work with such dedicated and compassionate people Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit The half day hope hack in Forest Bank prison last week was epic. So tough seeing young people incarcerated like this though. 50 kids from poorest areas around the North West all with similar

Poverty is the root cause of so many issues that haunt children throughout life, from obesity to undiagnosed neuro-diversity, all destroying opportunity, choice & participation others take for granted. It’s time to root out poverty for all, cos till then our economy will wither!

Agreed - it's always about votes too - rarely about what's right - where is our compassion as a society

Forest Bank prison hope hack debrief Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit User Voice Unity FM StreetDoctors UK Youth There's always Hope! #LegacyOfHope

At 39 Hope Hacks across the UK we asked young people what they thought a fairer society could look like. They said they'd like Mental health services to be a reality and accessible to them!! An important read Centre for Mental Health centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications/i… #Reimagined

The right wing zealots in Scotland are out in force this morning calling for traditional action on "knife crime". Are we forgetting all we have learned?

Graham Goulden @ChairHC Leroy Logan MBE Duncan Bew Abhinay Muthoo Anthony France Graeme Armstrong Don't!! A certain hugely funded VRU boss once said to me I still kept speaking too much about Scotland. With good reason I responded and the story still needs retelling until penny drops that the public health philosophy truly is all about relationships 👌

Shout out the most incredible youth management group on the planet representing THE HOPE COLLECTIVE Great work as ever UK Youth and Volunteering Matters and all those supporting the I Will movement #PowerOfYouthDay #WeSeeYourPower

The National A bit of reflection. Time goes by, and life comes at us fast, but the theory of change ignited by Scottish Violence Reduction Unit inspired the rest of the UK to do things differently. Rightly so! How about a brief time out to consider looking at best practices across the UK underpinned by public

Callum 𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝔻𝕠𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕪 💜 Sad seeing the regression in language coming from Scottish authorities, but it's heartening to see you guys pop up on timeline, providing a voice of reason. Down here, the regression is in full flow as well with a thriving youth violence "industry" feeding more mouths than it

In the long term, "Intervention" is far more expensive than "prevention" And that's the rub of it with the youth violence industry and lack of political will to level up our most vulnerable communities Systemic short termism is bane of our times. No matter how dedicated the

Knife amnesties and bins are a gimmick and not worth the cost of the bins - the wrong people put the knives in the bins not the target market! These campaigns are cyclical and an amnesty bin results from lack of fresh ideas Sky News

Streetwise Stu Cornbread Mafioso 🖕🏾 VOTES AT 16 - STOP THE BOATS 😕 The lack of investment in poorest regions and communities in the UK over several decades brought us to this. Trying to now lumber school kids with fixing our broken democracy comes with high level risk of further boosting Farage #BrexitBritain

Just listened to BBC Newsnight on immigration - 2 politicians labour and Tory (hard to tell them apart) and a passionate expert. Reminded me of the "knife crime" debate. Politicians rehashing policies that lack compassion and have failed so often, experts ignored

The core issue -sitting behind all the presenting issues for children- is poverty. Poverty is the deadly, destructive system that puts short-term economic profit & geo-political power above the wellbeing of children & their families, compounding all other difficulties they face.

Absolutely no idea or credibility - can't possibly prosecute every shoplifting - zero capacity. Stop and search lol - non starter - knife arches 😂

SPIRIT OF LONDON AWARDS Grok John Loughton BEM Out and out the best opening talk at a THE HOPE COLLECTIVE Hope Hack John Loughton BEM NivenR_HopeCollective epitomised everything the Hope Collective stands for. Why the establishment funders dont understand and in one particular case push back against us repugnantly #TeamHope

I want my country back… From the racists From the bigots From the liars From the inciters From the pedlars of hate