young people

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The Debrief

Listen: The Debrief – what a leaked police report revealed about racial inequalities in stop-and-search

A report leaked to the Cable showed the shocking fact that Black people are 25 times likelier to be strip-searched than white peers. Sean Morrison and Priyanka Raval ask what the findings say about police institutional racism.

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

‘I was a prisoner of my mind’: how a Bristol charity is helping to cut reoffending among young men

Interviews

Bridging the gap: A campaign empowering south Bristol’s youth

Youth Moves is addressing the cultural, social and economic divide that stops young people south of the river achieving their potential.

Reports

Bristol still failing to shield young people from knife crime, police and council told

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked on if Drill music is driving knife crime with youth worker Darren Alexander

‘This is how we can scrap crime without doing the time’

Delroy Hibbert, who is currently helping Bristol young people tell their stories, explains why the revolving door of criminality and incarceration needs to be broken with therapy and investment.

Lockdown through a child’s eyes in Bristol

Missing friends but enjoying rare time with family. Feeling cabin bound but not having to go to school. Lockdown for kids in Bristol has both upsides and downsides.

Down but not out: Voices of young people excluded from school

Often marginalised, rarely listened to or understood, the Cable has been working with young people who have left mainstream education to give them a voice.

‘I have never experienced such intense stress’: Social workers on the strain of cuts

Soaring workloads and the impact of austerity can make a tough job unbearable, say children’s social workers

‘Children are being deprived of feeling part of their city’

Hartcliffe youngsters are campaigning for free bus travel for children.

Meet a young problem gambler hooked on computer games and scratch cards

George had a problem with gambling. He was 16 and hooked on computer games.