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More youth workers heading for A&E units to help gang members quit (8 October 2014)
Date: 08/10/2014
Home Office Minister Norman Baker has announced that youth workers and A&E staff are to work together more to offer immediate help to gang members who attend A&E with knife injuries.
The Liberal Democrat Minister was speaking at the LibDem conference and praised initiatives to help gang members by the charity Redthread, which places youth workers within A&E units to target youngsters involved in gangs.
The Home Office will give an additional £30,000 in funding so that youth workers can work in A&E units at five more London hospitals – Barnet, Bromley, Kensington and Chelsea, Havering and Hillingdon.
Youth workers are already embedded in A&E units at St George’s in south London, St Mary’s in west London, the Royal London Hospital in east London – and King’s College Hospital, where the scheme was originally piloted.
Mr Baker told delegates at the LibDem conference:
“Young people who get into gangs are very badly affected by the experience – and many of them would like a way out.
“But the message has to come from people they trust, rather than people like me.
“When people present themselves to A&E with injuries, this is when they are often most willing to listen to someone who can help them on the journey from darkness into sunshine.”
Mr Baker said he was also keen to help girls and young women escape gang culture.
“Girls are often treated like objects and told to store guns or drugs for their boyfriends,” he said.
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