Witness Confident is now delivering practical help across ten primary schools to provide a safe haven for 10 and 11 years old children to discuss their experiences and views about street violence.
This project follows the findings from our study of primary school children in Hackney and Islington that
- almost all the 10 and 11 year old children interviewed say if they see a child being mugged they will help the victim, call the police or chase the villain
- but that few will raise the experience with their teachers as they don’t believe schools are ready or able to help.
The charity’s call for a fresh approach to address street violence is backed up in this comment piece by Pat Boyer..
Drawing on this project, Witness Confident will be developing a training pack for primary schools later in 2012.
