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17 hours ago
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After-school patrols reassure pupils walking home
A scheme to keep children safe on their way home from school by putting specialist youth workers on the streets has been trialled by an east London council. Adults experienced in conflict management and de-escalation patrolled from Monday to Friday on three routes in Chingford, Walthamstow and Leyton. The scheme was funded by the mayor's violence reduction unit, and started in January after young people said trusted adults in the community would make them feel safer. The teams were on duty between 15:00 and 18:00 until the scheme was paused for the summer holidays. Mobile phone theft One 15-year-old boy from Waltham Forest said he found the youth workers were a reassuring presence. "Inevitably stuff is going to happen between children. It could be because they pronounce their words differently or it could be something more serious. "By having trusted adults around areas such as the market, where most schoolchildren come together, makes it safer for everyone." He also said he found the Safer Routes team "less intimidating" than the police. Wayne George, from community interest group Creative Engagement Services, is one of those involved. He said a lot of his work was related to mobile phone theft, so he runs workshops on how to be safe with phones. According to a Waltham Forest Council survey, 43% of residents said crime was one of their top concerns. Data provided by the council also suggested young people were most vulnerable on school days during the two-hour period after the school day finished. Barrington Todd has been a youth worker for more than 20 years. He said knowing how to find common ground was important: "Once we have pulled two people apart or a group of people we say 'look, it's us, you know us'. "We say police are not the ogres, we are not the ogres, we are just friendly people who care about young people." He added that youth workers hoped to be positive role models within the community and to remind children of their own expectations of themselves and their values. 'Put interventions in place' The team on the ground were also able to share real-time updates with the community safety team and professionals including school staff. Helen Marriott, head teacher at Walthamstow School for Girls, said: "They are able to communicate with us, let us know if there are any incidents, any young people at risk, and then we're able to act on that and put interventions in place when they come back into school." Risks children could encounter after school included drug dealers, criminal gangs and harassment and violence against women and girls. Mr Todd said a special summer programme of activity would take place during the school holidays in order to engage with young people. One mother, Candy Cridland, said the scheme offered her some reassurance because it made her daughter feel safer. She said her daughter, who has a disability, gets incredibly anxious and worries about being picked on by bigger children. Ms Cridland said her daughter had befriended one of the female adults - something that provides reassurance for both Ms Cridland and her daughter. Waltham Forest Council said it was taking quarterly feedback from young people to discuss the routes. It will evaluate the pilot after two years and if it is effective, will be looking at ways to keep it. Listen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to More on this story Handling of youth service cuts plan an 'insult' Youth club closures increased offending - report Related internet links Waltham Forest Council London's Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
After-school patrols reassure pupils walking home
A scheme to keep children safe on their way home from school by putting specialist youth workers on the streets has been trialled by an east London council. Adults experienced in conflict management and de-escalation patrolled from Monday to Friday on three routes in Chingford, Walthamstow and Leyton. The scheme was funded by the mayor's office for policing and crime, and started in January after young people said trusted adults in the community would make them feel safer. The teams were on duty between 15:00 and 18:00 until the scheme was paused for the summer holidays. Mobile phone theft One 15-year-old boy from Waltham Forest said he found the youth workers were a reassuring presence. "Inevitably stuff is going to happen between children. It could be because they pronounce their words differently or it could be something more serious. "By having trusted adults around areas such as the market, where most school children come together, makes it safer for everyone." He also said he found the Safer Routes team "less intimidating" than the police. Wayne George, from community interest group Creative Engagement Services, is one of those involved. He said a lot of his work is related to mobile phone theft, so he runs workshops on how to be safe with phones. According to a Waltham Forest council survey, 43% of residents said crime was one of their top concerns. Data provided by the council also suggested young people were most vulnerable on school days during the two hour period after the school day finished. Barrington Todd has been a youth worker for more than 20 years. He said knowing how to find the common ground was important: "Once we have pulled two people apart or a group of people we say 'look, it's us, you know us'. "We say police are not the ogres, we are not the ogres, we are just friendly people who care about young people." He added that youth workers hope to be positive role models within the community and to remind children of their own expectations of themselves and their values. 'Put interventions in place' The team on the ground were also able to share real-time updates with the community safety team and professionals including school staff. Helen Marriott, headteacher at Walthamstow School for Girls, said: "They are able to communicate with us, let us know if there are any incidents, any young people at risk, and then we're able to act on that and put interventions in place when they come back into school." Risks children could encounter after school included drug dealers, criminal gangs and harassment and violence against women and girls. Mr Todd said a special summer programme of activity would take place during the school holidays in order to engage with young people. One mother, Candy Cridland, said the scheme offered her some reassurance because it made her daughter feel safer. She said her daughter, who has a disability, gets incredibly anxious and worries about being picked on by bigger children. Ms Cridland said her daughter had befriended one of the female adults - something that provides reassurance for both Ms Cridland and her daughter. Waltham Forest Council said it was taking quarterly feedback from young people to discuss the routes. It will evaluate the pilot after two years and if it is effective, will be looking at ways to keep it. Listen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to More on this story Handling of youth service cuts plan an 'insult' Youth club closures increased offending - report Related internet links The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime Waltham Forest Council
BBC News
a day ago
- BBC News
After-school safety patrols: 'We are friendly people who care'
A scheme to keep children safe on their way home from school by putting specialist youth workers on the streets has been trialled by an east London experienced in conflict management and de-escalation patrolled from Monday to Friday on three routes in Chingford, Walthamstow and scheme was funded by the mayor's office for policing and crime, and started in January after young people said trusted adults in the community would make them feel teams were on duty between 15:00 and 18:00 until the scheme was paused for the summer holidays. Mobile phone theft One 15-year-old boy from Waltham Forest said he found the youth workers were a reassuring presence."Inevitably stuff is going to happen between children. It could be because they pronounce their words differently or it could be something more serious. "By having trusted adults around areas such as the market, where most school children come together, makes it safer for everyone."He also said he found the Safer Routes team "less intimidating" than the police. Wayne George, from community interest group Creative Engagement Services, is one of those said a lot of his work is related to mobile phone theft, so he runs workshops on how to be safe with to a Waltham Forest council survey, 43% of residents said crime was one of their top provided by the council also suggested young people were most vulnerable on school days during the two hour period after the school day finished. Barrington Todd has been a youth worker for more than 20 said knowing how to find the common ground was important: "Once we have pulled two people apart or a group of people we say 'look, it's us, you know us'."We say police are not the ogres, we are not the ogres, we are just friendly people who care about young people."He added that youth workers hope to be positive role models within the community and to remind children of their own expectations of themselves and their values. 'Put interventions in place' The team on the ground were also able to share real-time updates with the community safety team and professionals including school Marriott, headteacher at Walthamstow School for Girls, said: "They are able to communicate with us, let us know if there are any incidents, any young people at risk, and then we're able to act on that and put interventions in place when they come back into school."Risks children could encounter after school included drug dealers, criminal gangs and harassment and violence against women and Todd said a special summer programme of activity would take place during the school holidays in order to engage with young people. One mother, Candy Cridland, said the scheme offered her some reassurance because it made her daughter feel said her daughter, who has a disability, gets incredibly anxious and worries about being picked on by bigger Cridland said her daughter had befriended one of the female adults - something that provides reassurance for both Ms Cridland and her Forest Council said it was taking quarterly feedback from young people to discuss the will evaluate the pilot after two years and if it is effective, will be looking at ways to keep it.
The Sun
12-07-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Norman Tebbit was a wise politician whose destiny was decided by love… he should be seen as an inspiration to all
NORMAN TEBBIT has died at the age of 94, but we shall feel his steely, steadfast presence for many years to come. Because nobody ever came closer to diagnosing what ails this country better than Norman 'Bites Yer Legs' Tebbit. 6 6 Derided in his prime as a knuckle-dragging skinhead by his lefty political opponents and soft-bellied satirists, Tebbit was, in reality, the most wise and prescient of politicians. It feels like he saw it all in his Chingford crystal ball — our nation's post-Covid torpor, the lazy working from home culture, the 4.2million working age individuals now claiming health benefits. Norman saw it all coming — this country fit for skivers that we have become. So Tebbit's words become even more relevant as time goes by. 'My father did not riot,' he said, in response to the view that the widespread riots of 1981 were caused by unemployment. 'He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking until he found it.' Norman Tebbit never told anyone to get on their bike. What he said was that his father got on his own bike during the Great Depression, proving that nobody should ever rely on the state to feed their family when they can do it themselves. It is ultimately the most life-affirming of belief systems. The state is NOT the answer to each and every human problem. We are better human beings — healthier, happier, more at peace with ourselves — if we can solve our own problems. This was not the patrician Conservatism of the past. This was the Tory creed of the future — born not on the playing fields of Eton but in the streets of Essex. So much of what goes on today would have had Norman's skull-like head tightening with fury. Tebbit was never against immigration — he was against a lack of INTEGRATION, and knew in his bones that a multi- racial, multicultural country would never work unless we all believed in the same values, and if we all felt the same pride and affection in the country we call home. Norman Tebbit lived. He transformed two years of National Service into a visa to another life — becoming a pilot first for the RAF, and later for the British Overseas Airways Corporation. Appalling injuries He once crawled from a burning cockpit after smashing the glass. That is what he was doing at an age when today's MPs were getting their PPE degrees at Oxford or working as human rights lawyers. No wonder Norman had the bottle to take on the big beasts of the trade union movement. Tebbit believed in the power of the individual — to pay their way, to change their life, to look after and protect those they love. It is the brand of Conservatism that believes we all prosper when the raw animal spirit of private enterprise is unleashed. All the nanny-state policies that have killed that spirit — prolonged lockdowns, endless state handouts, massive pay rises for public sector unions, the conviction of both Tory and Labour politicians that the British people need the state to wipe our helpless bottoms — were all anathema to Norman Tebbit. It is ironic that he is seen as a hard man, an uncaring man. Because there was nobody more compassionate than Tebbit. He was a man whose destiny was decided by love. Norman Tebbit, modern working-class Conservatism made flesh and blood and bone, could reasonably have expected to take over from Margaret Thatcher when her time was done. Instead, he gave his life to another Margaret — his wife of 64 years, who was paralysed from the neck down in the IRA bombing of Brighton's Grand Hotel at the Tory Party Conference of 1984. Tebbit also suffered appalling injuries in the terrorist attack that caused him great pain for the rest of his life. But his beloved wife would never walk again and would always need help with everyday tasks. So Norman walked away from his career to care for Margaret. He was always by her side. There was never anything more important in his world than the wife who, he knew, was not even that interested in politics. 'An inspiration to all Conservatives,' Kemi Badenoch called Norman Tebbit. I would put it even higher. Norman Tebbit was an inspiration to the human race. WRITER HIT BY SALT BURNS 6 THE Salt Path is a beautiful book. But the reason Raynor Winn's story exploded – a massive bestseller turned into a film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs – is because its tale of a destitute married couple walking England's South West Coast Path was pitched to the world as an 'unflinchingly honest' true story. And that now seems, ahem, unlikely. Some of the alleged fabrications, uncovered by a forensic investigation by the Observer newspaper, are merely embarrassing. Raynor Winn and her partner Moth were once called plain old Sally and Tim Walker. Moth's terminal illness CBD – in The Salt Path he is presented as a man with one hiking boot in the grave – is perhaps not quite as terminal as it is cracked up to be. Nine neurologists raised a wry eyebrow at the notion of Moth living for so many years (12 and counting) with a condition that was expected to kill him in six to eight years. In response, Winn has posted letters addressed to Timothy Walker, which she said showed he had been treated for CBD for 'many years'. But one letter said Moth was 'affected very mildly' by CBD, another suggested he had an 'atypical' form of the condition. But the truly damaging allegation is that Winn embezzled a previous employer, the late Martin Hemmings, out of £64,000 when she was his bookkeeper – and that is why she eventually became homeless. 'Her claims that it was all just a business deal that went wrong really upset me,' says Hemmings' widow, Ros. 'Highly misleading,' said Raynor Winn of the Observer expose – later issuing a lengthy statement offering vague 'regrets' about 'past mistakes', maintaining her book was 'accurate'. Which doesn't really clear things up, does it? The Salt Path's millions of readers have a right to know if this beloved book is ultimately based on lies. And a grubby crime. Until then, we will just have to think of it as The-Pinch-of-Salt-Path. SO WHY NO ROMP ROUND TWO, CHARLIZE? CHARLIZE THERON, 49, tells the Call Her Daddy podcast about an amazing one-night stand. 'I've probably had three one-night stands in my entire life,' confesses the actress. 'But I did recently f* a 26-year-old and it was really f*ing amazing.' Lucky Charlize. Even luckier 26-year-old! But I am just a teeny-weeny bit sceptical about tales of one-off brief encounters where the earth moves. Because if it was really that incredible, then why wouldn't you do it all again next week? SPLAT'S A WINNER 6 ED SHEERAN is putting some of his paintings on sale to raise money for his Ed Sheeran Foundation, which helps provide inclusive music education for children. And like many of the singer's melodies, the man's artwork is disarmingly beautiful. A paint-stained Ed poses before a large canvas that has been splattered with colours from multiple directions. It looks like paintings by John Squire of the Stones Roses, another musician who was a dab hand at abstract expressionism. Both Ed and John paint in the style of Jackson Pollock, who revolutionised art after the war with his 'drip technique'. So don't be alarmed if someone says Ed Sheeran's paintings resemble a load of old Pollocks. Because that's a compliment. FEARS OVER RICKY RICKY HATTON, 46, is planning to supplement his pension pot by stepping back into the ring against Eisa Al Dah in Dubai in December. Those of us who love and admire the Hit Man can't help but have mixed emotions. For we all remember Ricky's heavy defeats to Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. We know about his struggles with depression outside the ring. And yet Hatton deserves a comfortable retirement. Who can begrudge him one more big pay day? And yet who cannot be worried for him? We are right to have mixed emotions about Hatton coming back. It is being called an Oasis-style return. Please. Noel and Liam are not going to get smacked in the cakehole while touring. Fingers crossed! AFTER the state visit of Monsieur le President and Madame Macron, there is a lot of chatter about French chic. But the most sophisticated woman at that state banquet was Catherine, Princess of Wales. Just look at the devastating impact she had on the French president himself. Kate's radiant presence turned Macron into a total winker. MIXED reviews for the new Superman reboot. But the latest Man Of Steel does have a lovely dog – Krypto, who has his own little red cape. Krypto's breed? CGI. So he is not going to need much grooming.
Daily Mail
10-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Man arrested at ferry port is charged over murder of 26-year-old stabbed to death in Chingford
A man who was arrested at a ferry port has been charged over a fatal stabbing in Chingford. Peshman Ahmedi, 22, was arrested at the Port of Dover on Tuesday following a large police operation in Kent. He has now been charged in connection with the murder of Tyler Hayward, 26, who was knifed to death in the suburb in northeast London. Ahmedi will appear in custody at Willesden Magistrates' Court today. A murder investigation was launched after officers were called to reports of a stabbing on Chingford Mount Road at 9.14pm on Sunday. And on Tuesday, passengers on a ferry headed for Calais were left stranded for 10 hours while police raided the vessel to arrest their suspect. The ferry had set off from the Port of Dover in the morning but was ordered to return within minutes as a huge search operation got underway. Met Police officers and paramedics responded on Sunday when Mr Hayward was found with a stab wound. Despite the efforts of emergency services, he died at the scene. His next-of-kin were informed and are now being supported by specialist officers. In a statement, the victim's family said: 'We are struggling with the tragic loss of Tyler, a beautiful soul with the kindest of hearts. 'A much-loved son, grandson and brother, who will be missed immensely. We would appreciate privacy at this time whilst we come to terms with our loss.'
