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National Combatting Gangs, Violence and County Lines Conference
On 30 January, our Services Manager Amanda presented at the National Combatting Gangs, Violence and County Lines Conference. Â She...
Feb 7, 2024


Online Harms Event
Yesterday evening, Abianda attended 'Exploring Policing Online: The Conversation Continues', an event facilitated by Met Police and young...
Feb 1, 2024


Abianda Pitchside
On Sunday 14 January, Abianda CEO and Founder Abi headed to Meadow Park to watch Arsenal WFC take on Watford. This was the first time...
Jan 17, 2024


YWAG Meeting
The Young Women's Advisory Group met for our second meeting last week and it was also our end-of-year celebration. We worked on our group...
Dec 21, 2023


Solution-focused Training
The Abianda team attended 6 sessions of solution-focused training with the amazing Luke Goldie-McSorley from Essex Solution Focused...
Dec 8, 2023


London VRU Event
On 30 October, our Contextual Safeguarding Lead Fiona attended London's Violence Reduction Unit's Girls and Young Women's Best Practice...
Oct 31, 2023


EU Anti-Trafficking Day
Today, 18 October, is the EU Anti-Trafficking Day. Girls facing criminal exploitation in the UK are regularly victims of trafficking....
Oct 18, 2023


Young Women Join Abianda
After 2 rounds of interviews, we are so delighted to have confirmed the members of our Young Women's Advisory Group (YWAG)! Our...
Oct 13, 2023


Contextual Safeguarding Book Launch
On Wednesday, Abianda had the pleasure of attending the book launch for Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter at Redmond Community...
Sep 15, 2023


Open Letter with Barnardo's
We are proud to have signed an open letter, alongside Barnardo's and 20,136 members of the public, calling on the Government to provide...
Sep 14, 2023


Waltham Forest + Abianda
Abianda’s Participation team worked with young women from Waltham Forest’s Young Advisors (YA) and Youth Independent Advisory Group...
Sep 4, 2023


Young Women's Advisory Group!
We're excited to announce that we are recruiting for our Young Women's Advisory Group (YWAG)! We would love for you to share this...
Aug 23, 2023


Filming
Our Contextual Safeguarding Lead Fiona was up to something special last week. She was filming for a video training package. This training...
Aug 21, 2023


Abianda & Arsenal
On 2 August, Abianda was invited to Emirates Stadium for a No More Red event in the Adidas box. Thank you to Arsenal FC and Arsenal in...
Aug 8, 2023


Abianda’s reflections on the death of Aisha Cleary
Overview In August 2019, a young woman called Rianna Cleary was remanded to HMP Bronzefield, Europe’s largest women’s prison. Rianna had...
Aug 2, 2023


About Us and With Us: A Youth Best Practice Event
Yesterday our Participation Lead Alex attended London's Violence Reduction Unit Young People's Action Group's 'About Us and With Us: A...
Jul 27, 2023


Keeping Girls and Young Women Safe Report
Young women and girls are often overlooked by services in relation to child criminal exploitation. A new report 'Keeping Girls and Young...
Jul 19, 2023


Open Letter to the Government on Child Sexual Abuse
We are proud to have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman calling for...
May 26, 2023


April Training
In April, we delivered 8 training sessions to over 100 professionals. Topics included contextual safeguarding, relationship mapping and...
May 3, 2023


Youth Justice Reports
Liberty, No More Exclusions, Kids of Colour and 7 other organisations released Holding Our Own: A Guide to Non-Policing Solutions to...
May 1, 2023


Child Exploitation and Extra-Familial Harm Practice Principles
We're proud to have been involved in the development of the multi-agency Practice Principles for responding to child exploitation and...
Mar 29, 2023


Criminalisation of Nitrous Oxide
Abianda supports this statement by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation on the criminalising of nitrous oxide. As with all 'war on drugs'...
Mar 27, 2023


Strip Search of Children Report
38% of children strip-searched were Black & 52% of searches did not confirm that an appropriate adult was present - this is not...
Mar 27, 2023


Abianda Newsletter - March 2023
Hi Abianda supporters, happy spring! We've had a busy few months working to keep young women and girls safe from criminal exploitation...
Mar 24, 2023

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