Lessons learnt from Essex ‘Lived Experience’ Workforce Development Programme County Lines Pathfinder (January 2022)
Summary:
Essex youth justice service have shared their learning from creating a training course for staff based on lived experiences of the children at risk or involved in county lines.
Description:
Essex youth justice service have, as part of their Pathfinder project shared the lesson learnt from developing a ‘lived experience’ workforce developing training programme to work effectively with children at risk or involved in county lines. These include:
- A summary document of the background, approach, enablers and barriers to this piece of work.
- Essex Lived Experience: Recommendations for creating a training course – this includes key recommendations from Traverse that emerged from the County Lines Pathfinder development of a training course for staff.
- Lived Experiences of County Lines, gangs and criminal exploitation in Essex paper (2019) – this paper contains; an overview of the experience of Essex children and professionals. It explores key triggers into criminal exploitation, signs of exploitation, building positive relationships with children, partnership work and some of the challenges faced in Essex.
- Essex Lived Experience: Project Tips – key tips when considering creating a workforce development training
- A short film of Essex practitioners talking about their involvement in the project.
The purpose is to assist other services to develop and implement a similar approach in using the lived experiences of children within their own locality to create a local training programme. Essex Youth Offending Service spent approximately £100,000 in developing the workforce development programme, which includes practitioner time, over two years.
Contact
| Youth justice service: | Essex County Council |
| Name: | Jane Ryan |
| Email: | Jane.Ryan@essex.gov.uk |