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Youth workers will chaperone pupils to reduce violence, but expert says scheme will create more trauma.

Youth workers are being recruited to chaperone children to and from school in the West Midlands in a bid to tackle youth violence.

Schools in areas of high crime in the West Midlands are taking part in a Home Office-backed scheme.

So they provide a refuge. so if there are students who feel they are at risk or feel _ they are vulnerable, _ they can see those chaperones, they are marked out with mad on theirjackets and they can l approach them and the chaperones can make sure feel safe. _ the school is one of more than a dozen across the west midlands which is taking part in a pilot project called step together. in each case, the children have to use routes to and from school where drug dealing and gang crime are problems. ...

This school is one of more than a dozen across the west midlands that is taking part in a pilot project called step together. in each case, the children have to use routes to and from school where drug dealing and gang crime are problems. thankfully, none of us has been involved in such violence across the streets, but we do know that there are people out there, there are the dangers of the world out there and you want to be protected in such situations. so the fact that these chaperones are out...

The introduction of chaperones follows concern at teenage violence, including the murder of Keon Lincoln (pictured), 15, who was stabbed and shot in Birmingham in January.

Selfless Somerset citizens who have gone the extra mile to support their communities have been recognised for their contributions at the Somerset County Council Chairman’s Awards.

Residents and volunteers who have gone the extra mile to help their communities have been recognised for their contributions at the Somerset County…

In a wide-ranging three-hour NSW Parliamentary hearing on counter-terrorism and prisons on Friday, NSW Shadow Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism Walt Secord tabled a letter from NSW Multiculturalism Minister Natalie Ward where said she stated that she supported investigating a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir. Minister Ward was responding to October 19 representations by Walt…