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...
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Feb 14
Criminal Exploitation Report
This month, the Centre for Social Justice and Justice & Care released a new report 'Criminal Exploitation: Modern Slavery by Another...
Feb 13
School Exclusions
We are concerned with figures from Agenda Alliance's analysis showing that Black Caribbean, mixed Black, Irish Traveller and Gypsy/Roma...
Oct 18, 2023
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....
Sep 15, 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 14, 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...
Aug 2, 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...
Jul 27, 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...
Apr 30, 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...
Mar 27, 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 22, 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 18, 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 8, 2023
International Women's Day 2023
This year's International Women’s Day theme of embracing equity is something we challenge ourselves to do on a day-to-day basis in our...
Mar 1, 2023
Response to Gove's Truancy Proposal
Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, has proposed...
Apr 28, 2022
“We need girls and young women to be heard instead of harmed."
Justice system in England and Wales ‘risks causing fresh trauma to girls’ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/04/uk-justice-syst...
Sep 29, 2020
Mayor supporting hundreds of young Londoners to exit County Lines
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today published new figures that show more than half of young Londoners engaging with a City Hall...
Sep 29, 2020
Teen county lines drug dealers posed as key workers during lockdown to evade police
Evening Standard has reported that teenage county lines drug dealers posed as key workers during lockdown to evade police, according to a...
Feb 17, 2020
Girls caught up in London criminal gang activity need more support, says new report
Research drawing on responses from 22 boroughs indicates the problem is under-recognised and should be addressed more effectively....
Sep 14, 2019
BBC News: Girls under the radar in drug gangs
Founder and CEO Abi Billinghurst is quoted in a recent BBC article on the experience of young women, gangs and county lines. Young women...
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