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...
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May 26, 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 3, 2023
April Training
In April, we delivered 8 training sessions to over 100 professionals. Topics included contextual safeguarding, relationship mapping and...
May 1, 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...
Mar 29, 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 27, 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 24, 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 22, 2023
Response to the Casey Review
Baroness Louise Casey does not mince her words: "It's organisational, it's institutional, it's systemic... If you don't own the size of...
Mar 18, 2023
National Child Exploitation Awareness Day
National Child Exploitation Awareness Day is 18 March 2023. We work with young women and girls affected by criminal exploitation and...
Mar 17, 2023
Southwark College's Personal Safety Information Day
The Abianda team headed to Southwark College's Personal Safety Information Day on 16 March. Our Contextual Safeguarding Lead Fiona spoke...
Mar 17, 2023
Safeguarding Adolescents and Young People Conference
On 16 March, Abianda's Gender Consultant Lucia attended Healthcare Conferences UK's Safeguarding Adolescents and Young People Conference....
Mar 8, 2023
International Women's Day 2023
This year's International Women’s Day theme of embracing equity is something we challenge ourselves to do on a day-to-day basis in our...
Mar 1, 2023
Response to Gove's Truancy Proposal
Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, has proposed...
Feb 7, 2023
Abianda at Redthread's HIVE Conference
On 31 January, Abianda team members headed to Redthread's HIVE 'Collaborating to Reduce Serious Youth Violence' Conference. It brought...
Feb 6, 2023
Adultification Bias Keynote
On 2 February, our Contextual Safeguarding Lead Fiona attended 'Adultification Bias in the Context of Child Protection' Keynote delivered...
Nov 30, 2022
Islington's Violence against Women and Girls Conference
Our team headed to Islington's Violence against Women and Girls conference on 28 November. Our Founder and CEO Abi shares her experience...
Nov 28, 2022
Enfield Council's White Ribbon Day Event
On Friday, our team headed to Enfield Council to speak at their White Ribbon Day event. Our Rescue and Response Lead Alex spoke alongside...
Nov 21, 2022
Safeguarding Adults Week 2022
At Abianda we passionately believe in the six principles of the Care Act 2014 - empowerment, prevention, proportionality, partnership,...
Oct 13, 2022
Lambeth's Borough Plan
On 11 October, our Contextual Safeguarding Lead Fiona attended a session at Marcus Lipton Youth Club to discuss Lambeth's Borough Plan....
Oct 13, 2022
Catch22 + Abianda
On 11 October, we had over 30 professionals attend our training 'Working with Young Women and Girls Affected by Gangs and County Lines'...
Sep 27, 2022
Abianda travels to Wales
On 21 September, our team headed to Llandudno, Wales to deliver training to Amethyst Sexual Assault Referral Centre. We covered our...
Sep 15, 2022
Tackling Youth Violence
Our Rescue & Response Gender Consultant Lucia headed to Ealing. Here are her reflections on the Tackling Youth Violence Network event....
Jul 21, 2022
Commission on Young Lives Roundtable
We're pleased to lend our expertise to the Commission on Young Lives and Agenda's roundtable discussion on how to support young women at...
