{"id":30507,"date":"2019-10-24T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=30507"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:51:31","slug":"city-hall-to-hold-open-day-for-young-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/city-hall-to-hold-open-day-for-young-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall to hold Violence Reduction Open Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An open day for young people at City Hall in central London will be held next Monday with a focus on violence reduction\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event will take place on Monday October 28, and will have places available for 200 youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>It will be hosted by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) &#8211; a team of people involved in health, the police, local government, the probation service and communtiy organisers.<\/p>\n<p>The VRU was set-up by the Mayor&#8217;s Office for Policing and Crime just over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>VRU&#8217;s goal is to tackle and deal with the rises in violent crime among London&#8217;s youth.<\/p>\n<p>And they also learn about and address the underlying causes of youth violence.<\/p>\n<p>They hope to connect with children and young people from:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pupil Referral Units<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Looked after children<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Convicted young offenders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The VRU team wants this to be a chance to provide them &#8220;with a platform to propose and lead projects that contribute to the aims of VRU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the open day, young persons will have a chance to become members of the Youth Action Group &#8211; set-up earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are free and the open day will run from 5pm to 8:30pm<\/p>\n<p>VRU says that here will be workshops and market stalls &#8220;showcasing a range of exciting opportunities for youth involvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Scott Mathew | Subbing: Michelle Del Rey | Featured image credit: Adobe Stock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open day for young people at City Hall in central London will be held next Monday with a focus on violence reduction\u00a0\u00a0 The event will take place on Monday October 28, and will have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":30509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}