OUR COURSES AND PROGRAMMES

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Creating an engaging, empathetic, non-judgmental, nurturing environment learners and young adults, become resilient, recognise their own potential, are empowered for a future full of unlimited possibilities, and imbued with the power and belief that they will succeed. 

A mind–body intervention. Using the ‘power of the mind to influence the body in ways which encourage and stimulate health and well-being.  

Empowering students through art, music, and culinary appreciation, to recalibrate their self-worth, appreciate the adjustment process, increase feelings of energy and positivity, effectively deal with stress, and reduce negative symptoms about anxiety and depression.

Enhancing self-esteem and ability to effectively deal with anger management and conflict resolution issues. Encouraging team building, Enhancing brain development. Helping students connect with their peers on a deeper, interpersonal level.

Literature and theatre as vehicles for self-empowerment and personal growth in dealing with violence against women, girls, and boys. Increasing students’ self-esteem, encouraging team building, Enhancing brain development. Helping students connect with their peers on a deeper interpersonal level.

One on one discussions with students to identify potential leaders, interest in particular roles for Mock Trial as well as Moderators Videographers, Directors, Scriptwriters, Music Producers, Film Producers, Social Media Influencers, Television Hosts, Reporters for the Students Court Television Series.

Researching the functions and responsibilities of officials who operate the Criminal Justice System.

Appropriate safeguarding and signposting facilities will be available during the sessions.

At the end of day one our students and young adults will be confident and empowered to take on the world

Participants will be met at three, six, nine- and twelve-monthly intervals for an assessment of the impact of the training on their future plans and to provide further guidance and support for up to five years after the course, as may be required.

Educating and empowering students on the operation of, and equipping them with the tools, to resist peer pressure and divert them away from, the long-lasting dangers of the criminal justice system.

Providing an insight into potential career options, entry requirements and salary, as Judges, Barristers, Solicitors, Prosecutors, Magistrates, Police Officers, Probation Officers and Social Workers.

Empowering students to operate the Criminal Justice System themselves through a Mock Trial, and to contribute their knowledge and experiences at The Students Court, a Television Series, where all school, college and university challenges will be adjudicated on by current and past learners themselves. 

Educating teachers, parents, and guardians on the operation of the criminal justice system so as to enable them to be informed and effective advisors to those in their care and to be calm, positive, and constructive, should the need arise to interface with players in the criminal justice system.

Student participants will be met at three, six, nine- and twelve-monthly intervals for an assessment of the impact of the training on their future plans and to provide further guidance and support for up to five years after the course, as may be required.

Preparing learners and young adults for the world of work armed with skills to navigate inter-personal challenges and to encourage those who are currently unemployed to be flexible and resilient in seeking out new and previously unimagined work opportunities.

Providing mentorship, guidance, and support so that students and young adults can realise their fullest potential in whatever career endeavour they choose to pursue.

Inspiring all pupils, teachers, parents, and guardians who participate in this workshop, to reimagine and experience a world full of new possibilities, new adventures, new vistas, that are far beyond their day-to-day existence.  

Empowering students and young adults to be model citizens who can positively contribute to the well-being and safety of society.  

The ultimate goal is to prepare our young adults for the world of work and being available to provide relevant guidance as we monitor their career and life choices over the next five years following the workshops.   

Participants will be met at three, six, nine- and twelve-monthly intervals for an assessment of the impact of the training on their future plans and to provide further guidance and support for up to five years after the course, as may be required.

Matching students and young adults (Mentees) with qualified and experienced individuals (Mentors) who will help them develop their personal goals and skills, through a series of time-limited, confidential, one-on-one conversations and other learning activities.

Both the mentor and mentee can jointly track the mentee's progress and allow the mentor to be used as a sounding board for ideas, which can help them make decisions faster and with more certainty.

Mentees can also benefit from the mentor's experience and knowledge and improve their own business skills. Both parties and their families can develop long lasting friendships.

Students would be met at three, six, nine- and twelve-monthly intervals for an assessment of the impact of the workshop on their future plans and to provide further guidance and support as may be required. 

Educate and Guide Children and Young Adults about interacting with the Police with self-control and confidence.  

Your rights and the law, from being stopped on the streets or in your cars and how to engage with the police. Would you be cautioned, arrested, or charged? What do you do when you attend court, could your family come with you, could your parents be legally responsible for your actions? 

What type of hearing would you have, bail, trial by lay magistrates or single magistrates or with a jury? Giving evidence in court. What happens if you win your case and how can you do that? How could you be sentenced, can you be fined, would a probation officer be involved, could you go to prison? 

What is prison like?  Can you appeal your sentence? What do Youth Offending Teams do? Are you a victim of crime, were you injured, can you get compensation? Can you assist police by reporting crimes or suspected crimes? What type of crime prevention measures are available?  

Participants will benefit from follow up guidance for one year after the course.

Educating teachers, parents, and guardians on the operation of the criminal justice system so as to enable them to be informed and effective advisors to those in their care and to be calm, positive, and constructive, should the need arise to interface with players in the criminal justice system.

At Ten your little boys and girls can be arrested, charged for committing a crime and brought to see the Lay Magistrates or District Judge at Juvenile Court. 

Engage, educate, and empower our children and young adults, with facts about the Criminal Justice System as they grow up. 

Parents, guardians, and carers will benefit from free follow up guidance for one year after the course. 

Young adults are empowered to become confident, effective advocates, with faith and confidence in themselves, who can undertake research, to structure and organize their thoughts. develop rigorous and critical thinking skills, enhance analytical, and note-taking skills, form balanced, well thought out and informed arguments and to use reasoning and evidence.

Initially daunting this could be fun meeting new friends and learning new things about the world around you. 

Participants will benefit from follow up guidance for one year after the course which is free.

Organization of Community Fora which will afford burgesses the opportunity to share their views and experiences on a wide variety of topical, societal issues.

The aim is to encourage participants to develop a sense of place, belonging and stability at this time of institutional upheaval in society at large due to the COVID 19 pandemic, and dramatic societal changes with growing calls for social and racial justice.

Participants will benefit from one year free follow up engagement after the event which is free.

Education and awareness raising for community-based organizations and the wider community at large, with a view to combating notions of lax monitoring and oversight, financial profligacy, turning a blind eye to mismanagement and lack of accountability.

Participants will examine the identified shortcomings that led to the institution of austerity measures in some organizations, suggested recommendations, their potential impact and how to guard against them in their respective organizations. 

Participant organizations will benefit from one year free follow up guidance after the training.

Educating the Boards of Directors, Management and Senior staff members of Voluntary Organizations/Non-Profit Organizations, and Charities on protective mechanisms against abuse by criminals.

Whilst vulnerabilities exist within the sector which could be exploited for money laundering purposes, robust financial controls within NPOs should mitigate many of these. 

Participants will review the vulnerabilities within the sector which could be exploited for money laundering and the financing of terrorism purposes and how they could be addressed through robust financial controls and other compliance measures. 

Participant organisations will benefit from one year free follow up guidance after the training.

After completing each course which will be videotaped as appropriate, learners will work alongside information technology experts and media professionals, to be trained.

• In the Design, Build and Commercialisation of Criminal Justice related Systems CODE RED TECH HUB, a strategic partner of TEPTP.
• In all stages of the production of videos and films and will be involved in the production of criminal justice system, and community education and awareness raising related content at CODE RED TV, a Film and Television Production Company, and strategic partner of TEPTP.

Undoubtedly, from a BAME community perspective, the Criminal Justice System is in a state of grave crisis. This is a problem not only for the BAME community but for young people generally and the working-class white community. 

“The best way to ensure fair treatment is to subject decision-making to scrutiny” (David Lammy, The Lammy Review 2017, p. 69).

• It is a fundamental tenet of our legal system that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. However, the fact remains that for a range of reasons, that isn’t always the case. In particular, research demonstrates that the criminal justice service treats individuals from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups differently. 

Mayor of London’s Tackling Disproportionality in Youth Justice March 2021

• I want people to have confidence in a justice system that is fair, open, and accessible to all – one where no person faces discrimination. 
• The current over-representation of people from racial and ethnic minorities in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) is a serious concern and something I have seen first-hand over a 25-year career working in the system. Making strides to address this is a focus for me personally as the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State, and for the Ministry of Justice as a whole, and the many agencies and partners with whom we work.
• Making progress on racial disparity in the Criminal Justice System requires challenge to accepted norms right across the system and it will therefore take time. But by focusing in the right areas, maintaining momentum, and being ambitious for change, it is possible. Ultimately, racial disparities do not just hold back individuals in our society, they prevent us as a nation from realizing our true collective potential. That is something this government is determined to challenge. 

Rt Hon Robert Buckland MP Immediate Past Lord Chancellor & Secretary of State for Justice

Foreword Tackling Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: 2020 Update

• I hope and expect that many of my recommendations will benefit White working class men, women, boys, and girls too. BAME communities face specific challenges, including discrimination in many walks of life. But some of the most marginalised BAME communities have much in common with the White working-class. A justice system that works better for those who are BAME, and poor will work better for those who are White British and poor too. 

David Lammy MP. The Lammy Review

Knowing the realities that BAME young people face and understanding the adverse experiences of institutionalised racism is key in helping hold organisations to account and improving the systems to support and protect children, young people, and their families - regardless of their ethnicity. (David Lammy, 2017, p. 69.

TO HEAL THE NATION WE HAVE TO SPEAK TO AND LISTEN TO EACH OTHER.

As law abiding citizens, we all want to live in safe crime free communities, and for that result we all should want the police to do well. And current Government and policing leaders have argued that stop and search should form part of the response to violent crime. 

Indeed, such an approach is to be expected so that knives and guns are taken off the streets, given the alarming and depressing figures for 2021 of thirty dead teenagers, the highest since 2008.

The majority of these children were stabbed to death by other teenagers. Equally alarming also, though small in number, are the two young ones who died from gunshot wounds.   

So, during the twelve months of 2021, sixty mothers and fathers and the rest of their families have lost their young-loved ones and are in mourning. Thus far as reported in the media, forty young people have been arrested for these crimes and this figure is expected to increase when the perpetrators of the last two for 2021 are apprehended. And, as they proceed through the various stages of the criminal justice system, the lives of at least eighty mothers and fathers, an unknown number of siblings and extended family members are in turmoil.     

The lives of at least one hundred and forty families and counting have been irreparably affected by this growing pandemic of teenage murders in London. All of whom both for the victims and the perpetrators have been and are calling out for justice. They would want all of us, the public at large to lend their fullest support to Commander Alex Murray and the Met Police to end this madness.

But sadly, and unfortunately, a demotivating factor may be the finding, that stop and search events and drug searches by the Met Police contribute to “ethnic disproportionality” in stop and search rates “despite evidence that there is no correlation between ethnicity and rates of drug use”. 

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) Report on the disproportionate use of stop and search and the use of force, found that no force “fully understands the impact of the use of [stop and search] powers” and “no force can satisfactorily explain why” ethnic disproportionality persists in search records.  HMICFRS and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) have also raised concerns that some searches are not conducted lawfully and effectively and HMICFRS has repeatedly called on forces to do more to monitor and scrutinise their use of the powers.

In May 2020 alone 10,000 black males in London aged 15 to 25 were stopped and searched. More than 80% of whom weren’t found to be carrying, or doing, anything that required further action. Police must work to understand the reasons behind the disproportionality seen in the use of stop and search, reduce it (where appropriate) and explain it to the public, states HMICFRS.  uch a conversation must cover, the stress and injustice of the majority of stop and search events, the use of force, the use of tasers, the preference for escalation rather than de-escalation, the humiliating strip searching of our children and young men, the propensity to charge rather than caution, and importantly the lasting psychological trauma inflicted on our thirteen-year-old male children. 

When these are no longer factors in the daily lives of the black and indeed our white working-class communities, so that they can go about their business as ordinary citizens, then the much-desired national healing will occur.

The police have a variety of legislative powers to stop and search which allow them to “allay or confirm” their suspicions without making an arrest. Officers must use a specific legislative power every time they conduct a stop and search. They must use the correct power for the circumstances of each search. They cannot rely on someone’s consent alone to search them. 

Evidence suggests that police practice did improve during the 2013-16 reform period. However, recently police watchdogs (including HMICFRS and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) have raised concerns that some searches are not conducted lawfully and effectively. 

In February 2021 HMICFRS published findings of a review of 9,378 search records. Fourteen percent of those records had “recorded grounds that were not reasonable.” The inspectorate said the “vast majority” of search records had weak recorded grounds (80%). HMICFRS has repeatedly called on forces to do more to monitor and scrutinize their use of the powers and to further improve and maintain standards. Only around 20% of searches in 2019/20 resulted in a criminal justice outcome (an arrest or out of court disposal) linked to the purpose of the search. 

In October 2020, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) raised concerns with the stop and search practice in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). The IOPC found the “legitimacy of stop and searches was being undermined” by:

• Officers demonstrating a lack of understanding about the impact of the disproportionate use of stop and search against black people. 
• Officers poorly communicating with those they were searching. 
• The “consistent use of force” during search encounters before seeking cooperation to conduct searches. 
• The failure of officers to turn their body-worn video on at the start of a stop and search encounter as required by guidance. 
• Officers continuing to seek further evidence to support searches after the initial grounds for the stop and search are proved unfounded. 

The IOPC made eleven recommendations to the MPS for improvements in their stop and search practice. The MPS accepted all the recommendations.

Stop and search powers are sometimes used, or perceived to be used, as a control measure or show of power by the police rather than being used for the legitimate purpose of finding prohibited items and reducing crime  Any misuse of these powers is likely to be harmful to policing, lead to mistrust of the police and is unlawful in that individual may:

• have to justify their actions to supervisors or in court
• be the subject of a complaint
• be the subject of misconduct proceedings
• cause their or their colleagues’ case to fail due to unlawfully obtained evidence
• experience more confrontational encounters with the public
• be committing an assault.

“The best way to ensure fair treatment is to subject decision-making to scrutiny” (David Lammy, The Lammy Review 2017, p. 69).