Building on friendships to create safety
2022-04-14
This podcast shares an example of how relationship-based approaches can be used when working with a peer group at risk of criminal exploitation. Nicola Maxwell (Strategic Lead for Specialist Adolescent Services), Ben Wyatt (Senior Practitioner in the Youth Offending Team), and Sabrina Streeter (Senior Social Worker within the Young Person's Drug Treatment Team), from the East Sussex County Council, discuss how they brought the group together at a youth club. This was a new way of working for their them, marking a shift from seeing friendships between young people engaged in criminal or harmful activity as a source of risk, to building on the strengths of those friendships within the peer group to create safety.