The past 3 days I have received so many texts, email and messages on social media saying…wagwan…Where are your blogs at. In person I have had several people come up to me and say that they love my blogs and have noticed that I have not put any out. So here is what’s been happening….

I don’t drive. Can you believe it…38 and I can’t drive!  Living in London for most my life meant that driving was not really an issue. Now living near the coast means that driving would make life easier. But I still don’t. I walk, get train or a bus or ride my bike. It’s the…

I sometime work with a man named Junior Smart. Anyone that is around Junior, will know that he speaks word of wisdom on the daily. He often talks about the fact that practitioner can be more territorial than the young people that we work with. I see evidence of this often. For anyone working within…

People often ask, “What are the long-term effects of CSE?”. Well that’s a question that I could talk about all day. But I am sure people are already sick of hearing me going on and on so.. I have decided to pick out one of the long-term effects of CSE.   My eyes are closed….

So, I decided to make my Blogs a bit interactive and put out a message asking people what they would like me to talk about in my blogs. The first person to answer was a lady called Sophie. She said the following:   “I’d be interested to hear about what helped Vs what made you…

Well… it seems that Out of the Shadows is starting to make moves. I have just had my second online training published by Pearson publishers. I had my first one, understanding street gangs, published at the start of the year. This is online training aimed at professionals to gain an understanding of street gangs. It…

Ok…I am gonna be real with you. I have rewritten this blog 5 times now. I wrote it the first time and thought, Na, that’s too much. I wrote it again and thought…Kendra you are just waffling and avoiding the point. I rewrote it again and again, trying to say it so it won’t cause…

My last blog and post on Twitter and LinkedIn caused a bit of a stir. If you have not read it, I basically said train stations had their part to play in safeguarding children and young people at that by not having many staff at gates and on trains then they are playing their part…

Everyone seems to be speaking about county lines at the moment. Different strategies being put in place. Thousands… no Millions of pounds being distributed around the UK by the authorities to try and disrupt and end county lines. Me, I have a good knowledge of “Going country”. A very good knowledge. When a young person…

  I think that sometimes we as humans forget how powerful we are, what impact we can have on other humans with our words and actions. Or maybe its not that we forget but rather we are not often reminded or told about the impact we have on others. My mum used to live by…