By Abi Billinghurst Founder and CEO Risk is in the day-to-day language of our work at Abianda. We operate in it as default. Young women’s lives are often shaped by it. Safeguarding systems are built around it. Professional meetings, assessments, interventions and decision-making are saturated with it. Our work requires us to sit constantly with uncertainty, ambiguity, consequence and harm - trying to navigate complex realities where there are rarely neat or risk-free answers. So we spend a...

Today is National Child Exploitation Awareness Day . With this year's theme of preventing abuse through exploitation by working in partnership , we wanted to share the work our Founder & CEO, Abi, has recently done in collaboration with the London Innovation and Improvement Alliance (LIIA) . LIIA has produced a Safeguarding Adolescence in London (SAIL) Toolkit where you can find a range of expert opinions, tools and resources to support your safeguarding efforts. Abi was really pleased...

This week at Abianda we’ve been sharing reflections under the theme Hidden, But Not Silent, voices from across our organisation exploring what it means for young women’s experiences to be misunderstood, overlooked or misread by the systems around them. For International Women’s Day, our founder Abi Billinghurst offers a reflection on hope, participation and the steady work of shifting systems so girls and young women affected by exploitation and violence can be seen, heard and supported...