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Among the 13 recommendations, Tower Hamlets OSC has said that the Community Safety Service should continue to work in partnership with the voluntary and community sector to expand their work on promoting a better understanding of safeguarding risks presented by online and social media – and how to stay safe online through the use of digital champions embedded across the voluntary and community sector.

The Youth Service should build on its current work to develop a curriculum to provide a structured programme of development for young people – and explore ways to support young people at risk of isolation. The service should also develop, in partnership with Community Safety, a peer education programme to develop young leaders capable of promoting safeguarding and cohesion within their peer groups.

The Learning & Achievement Service should work with schools and commissioned providers of interfaith work in schools to support the creation of safe spaces for young people to promote debate and critical discourse, as well as building on existing work to support schools in promoting equality and diversity, cohesion and critical thinking skills through the school curriculum a

The Learning & Achievement Service should also continue to promote the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award to improve uptake across schools in the borough.

The OSC also recommends that the council should continue to engage local citizens – in particular young people – in the shaping of plans and commissioning of services aimed at promoting safeguarding and undermining the risks of people being drawn in to terrorism or violent extremism, as well as developing greater community leadership to promote and celebrate diversity.

The council should also strengthen engagement across all communities in the borough and provide a platform for sustained interaction between communities – as well as ensuring the use of language across services and commissioned partners is consistent and compliant with the objective to promote community cohesion.

Chair of OSC, Councillor John Pierce, said:

“The youthful composition of the borough, coupled with the increasingly sophisticated deployment of the web and social media by organisations such as Daesh, has presented new challenges for the borough.

“We have thought through the resources we need to build on our work to tackle these issues – from the use of digital champions to help safeguard children online, to the development of peer leaders to help young people question sources of information that is presented to them.”


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