Lasting Support in Collaboration with Redbridge Council

Last Thursday, we delivered our conference on safeguarding neurodivergent young people in this rapidly evolving landscape of online harms and exploitation at Redbridge Central Library.

This was more than a training session, it was a critical conversation about how emerging digital threats are disproportionately impacting children and young people with additional needs, and what we must do differently to protect them.

We want to thank our incredible team who spent their day on this workshop:

• Faysal Curry, who shared deep insight into harmful emerging trends and the evolving online tactics being used to target young people.

• Warda Mohamed, who powerfully highlighted the current and emerging pathways perpetrators are using to identify, groom, brainwash and exploit victims.

• Paul Moody, who explored practical approaches to help professionals meaningfully engage, challenge and support young people at risk of exploitation and being drawn into extremism.

• Chris Wild, our trustee and director of Fostering Greatness UK, who unpacked the structural vulnerabilities within the care sector that can make children in care particularly susceptible to targeting and all forms of grooming.

The room was reflective, honest and solutions-focused.

In spaces like this, we don’t trade in fear.

We listen. We challenge. We build understanding.

But most importantly, we choose connection every time because the only thing more powerful than hate has always been love.

Get in touch to enquire about our training and consulting. Thank you to the London Borough of Redbridge for their continued efforts!