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Violence Affecting Young People Network
On the 9th of April, I attended a wonderful event organised by London Youth with my colleagues in our Participation team. It was a...
Apr 16


Exclusion Roundtable
Last week, our Services and Safeguarding Lead Fiona participated in Agenda Alliance 's roundtable meeting on girls' exclusion from...
Apr 9


National Child Exploitation Awareness Day
Today is National Child Exploitation Awareness Day. According to the Government’s 2024 National Referral Mechanism statistics , out of...
Mar 18


International Women's Day 2025
In reflecting on International Women's Day 2025 and Abianda's efforts to mark the event this year, it is perhaps unsurprising that I have...
Mar 8


Thanks MP Eshalomi
Thank you to Florence Eshalomi MP for continuing to champion the needs of young women and girls affected by criminal exploitation and...
Oct 23, 2024


The Experiences of Black Missing Children and their Parents
One of the members of Abianda's Young Women's Advisory Group participated in Missing People and Listen Up 's research for their report...
Sep 25, 2024


Statement on racist and Islamophobic violence
Abianda condemns the racist and Islamophobic violence we have seen escalating throughout our communities in recent weeks. Our thoughts...
Aug 16, 2024


International Women's Month
We may have missed International Women's Day (although we like to think that every day at A bianda is International Women's Day...), but...
Mar 20, 2024


Criminal Exploitation Report
This month, the Centre for Social Justice and Justice & Care released a new report 'Criminal Exploitation: Modern Slavery by Another...
Feb 14, 2024


School Exclusions
We are concerned with figures from Agenda Alliance's analysis showing that Black Caribbean, mixed Black, Irish Traveller and Gypsy/Roma...
Feb 13, 2024


EU Anti-Trafficking Day
Today, 18 October, is the EU Anti-Trafficking Day. Girls facing criminal exploitation in the UK are regularly victims of trafficking....
Oct 18, 2023


Contextual Safeguarding Book Launch
On Wednesday, Abianda had the pleasure of attending the book launch for Contextual Safeguarding: The Next Chapter at Redmond Community...
Sep 15, 2023


Open Letter with Barnardo's
We are proud to have signed an open letter, alongside Barnardo's and 20,136 members of the public, calling on the Government to provide...
Sep 14, 2023


Abianda’s reflections on the death of Aisha Cleary
Overview In August 2019, a young woman called Rianna Cleary was remanded to HMP Bronzefield, Europe’s largest women’s prison. Rianna had...
Aug 2, 2023


About Us and With Us: A Youth Best Practice Event
Yesterday our Participation Lead Alex attended London's Violence Reduction Unit Young People's Action Group's 'About Us and With Us: A...
Jul 27, 2023


Youth Justice Reports
Liberty, No More Exclusions, Kids of Colour and 7 other organisations released Holding Our Own: A Guide to Non-Policing Solutions to...
May 1, 2023


Criminalisation of Nitrous Oxide
Abianda supports this statement by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation on the criminalising of nitrous oxide. As with all 'war on drugs'...
Mar 27, 2023


Strip Search of Children Report
38% of children strip-searched were Black & 52% of searches did not confirm that an appropriate adult was present - this is not...
Mar 27, 2023


Response to the Casey Review
Baroness Louise Casey does not mince her words: "It's organisational, it's institutional, it's systemic... If you don't own the size of...
Mar 22, 2023


National Child Exploitation Awareness Day
National Child Exploitation Awareness Day is 18 March 2023. We work with young women and girls affected by criminal exploitation and...
Mar 18, 2023

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