>What’s also clear is that there is a direct correlation between school exclusions and serious violence affecting young people.
Correlation is not causation.
What are the underlying causes? Those are what need tackling.
Oh yeah yet another campaign which does literally fucking nothing. It’s all a photo ops guys, just smile and wave!
The problem isn’t that kids that get excluded become more prone to violence, it’s that kids that are prone to violence get excluded.
British schools are some of Europe’s worst for bullying and violence. We have teachers quitting and going on strike demanding action because they don’t feel safe. Mr Khan plans to put them in further danger by keepingthen near danger?
If I was tasked with tackling youth violence, I’d focus on preventative measures to stop youngsters becoming violent such as the following.
– tackling the epidemic of fatherless homes, lack of positive male role-models in kids lives. My suggestions are by reforming the child custody system to something more similar to Scandinavian countries, thus children are no longer seen as the sole right and responsibility of The Mother. Another plan would be to make education, in particular nurseries and primary schools a less female-dominated job.
– provide a more welcoming environment for children and young people to deal with their mental health so that it doesn’t reach boiling point. This can be addressed by further funding of mental health services and education programs in both primary and secondary schools. To reduce the number of youngsters (and everyone) needing mental health care, reducing the work/school week down to four day would help too, providing a longer period of time to rest and build connections with family and friends.
– Tackle the problem of poverty via poor education in London and elsewhere by funding job programs for all, fund adult education programs to help get people new skills to work better paying jobs. Better fund schools, like a lot and encourage vocational training programs for less academic students (make sure these programs are not deemed as ‘lesser’ to college).
– Tackle the problem of poverty via poor housing by building good quality, affordable communities. This isn’t just concrete tower blocks after concrete tower blocks though, build two/three story homes and small apartment buildings no taller than five stories. Make sure areas are well served by shops, community centres, community gardens,sport centres, places of worship, schools, GP clinics and encourage some offices there to provide jobs. Provide good public transport so residents can communicate to work. Make the community have multi-income population to avoid ghettoisation and improve on the region via vote by local residents.
– In the short-term to tackle poverty, trials on UBI have been shown to be effective in reducing poverty. Giving money to the most at risk population results in them being able to turn their life around whist those not at high risk are more willing to start businesses and spend money revitalising the local economy.
These are just a few things that I can think of. Of course this isn’t in Sadiq Khans power. The Tories or a Labour hovermeny would ever properly implement this.
I don’t like Sadiq Khan. He seems more bothered by his public image as a progressive and building his political career over doing anything. Bristol has voted to abolish their city Mayor as a proposition and I would support abolishing The Mayor of London and giving power back to the people.
Ps, sorry for spelling mistakes and typos, I’ve tried my best.
At least somebody is trying to do something about the unprecedented rises in Vietnam lent crime in this country, cause the government sure aren’t. They don’t even want to mention it, given it’s a direct result of their cuts to police numbers and early intervention programs. Shameful.
I think the logical conclusion might be that the violence is causing exclusions and not that exclusions are causing violence…
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>What’s also clear is that there is a direct correlation between school exclusions and serious violence affecting young people.
Correlation is not causation.
What are the underlying causes? Those are what need tackling.
Oh yeah yet another campaign which does literally fucking nothing. It’s all a photo ops guys, just smile and wave!
The problem isn’t that kids that get excluded become more prone to violence, it’s that kids that are prone to violence get excluded.
British schools are some of Europe’s worst for bullying and violence. We have teachers quitting and going on strike demanding action because they don’t feel safe. Mr Khan plans to put them in further danger by keepingthen near danger?
If I was tasked with tackling youth violence, I’d focus on preventative measures to stop youngsters becoming violent such as the following.
– tackling the epidemic of fatherless homes, lack of positive male role-models in kids lives. My suggestions are by reforming the child custody system to something more similar to Scandinavian countries, thus children are no longer seen as the sole right and responsibility of The Mother. Another plan would be to make education, in particular nurseries and primary schools a less female-dominated job.
– provide a more welcoming environment for children and young people to deal with their mental health so that it doesn’t reach boiling point. This can be addressed by further funding of mental health services and education programs in both primary and secondary schools. To reduce the number of youngsters (and everyone) needing mental health care, reducing the work/school week down to four day would help too, providing a longer period of time to rest and build connections with family and friends.
– Tackle the problem of poverty via poor education in London and elsewhere by funding job programs for all, fund adult education programs to help get people new skills to work better paying jobs. Better fund schools, like a lot and encourage vocational training programs for less academic students (make sure these programs are not deemed as ‘lesser’ to college).
– Tackle the problem of poverty via poor housing by building good quality, affordable communities. This isn’t just concrete tower blocks after concrete tower blocks though, build two/three story homes and small apartment buildings no taller than five stories. Make sure areas are well served by shops, community centres, community gardens,sport centres, places of worship, schools, GP clinics and encourage some offices there to provide jobs. Provide good public transport so residents can communicate to work. Make the community have multi-income population to avoid ghettoisation and improve on the region via vote by local residents.
– In the short-term to tackle poverty, trials on UBI have been shown to be effective in reducing poverty. Giving money to the most at risk population results in them being able to turn their life around whist those not at high risk are more willing to start businesses and spend money revitalising the local economy.
These are just a few things that I can think of. Of course this isn’t in Sadiq Khans power. The Tories or a Labour hovermeny would ever properly implement this.
I don’t like Sadiq Khan. He seems more bothered by his public image as a progressive and building his political career over doing anything. Bristol has voted to abolish their city Mayor as a proposition and I would support abolishing The Mayor of London and giving power back to the people.
Ps, sorry for spelling mistakes and typos, I’ve tried my best.
At least somebody is trying to do something about the unprecedented rises in Vietnam lent crime in this country, cause the government sure aren’t. They don’t even want to mention it, given it’s a direct result of their cuts to police numbers and early intervention programs. Shameful.
I think the logical conclusion might be that the violence is causing exclusions and not that exclusions are causing violence…