Season 3, Episode 12 Ciaran Thapar and Jhemar Jonas on the book Cut Short, Youth Work as a vehicle for change and the impact of austerity on street violence
Send us a textWhat happens when youth work, the decimation of preventative services and a community that feels left behind collide? In this collaborative book, Cut Short; Why we’re failing our youth – and how to fix it, Ciaran charts life during the most challenging years of the last decade. The emergence of the VRU in London is recorded as are the real lives of those living in their community as violence escalates against the backdrop or even in response to, the ideology of austerity and a c...