Funded by Lambeth Council, Flourish began operating in May 2021 and is based within Children’s Social Care. It offers a range of short-term interventions, as well as an 18-month structured programme. 

About the team

The team comprises two Lead Practitioners and one dedicated Team Manager who have all been systematically trained to work with individuals with complex needs. The advisory board, chaired by the Assistant Director of Children’s Social Care, consists of key internal and external partners.

We spoke with Sal Naseem about his thoughts on how we can improve trust and confidence in the police and how equality, diversion and inclusion could be embedded into police culture. 

We spoke with Christopher Guttridge, Commissioner’s Officer for Crime, Offending and Justice, about this scheme. 

We spoke with Shelley Shaw, Development and Impact Manager at Together for Childhood Plymouth, who joined the project in February 2018.

About the service

"Non judgemental here to help."

We spoke with Roger Koester, Everyman Project’s (EP) clinical manager.

We spoke to Martin Bewick, a Specialist Antisocial Behaviour Liaison Officer and the Right Hook Project Coordinator at Cwm Taf Youth Offending Service, to learn more about how boxing and martial arts can be vehicles for engaging young people.

We spoke with Laura North, Domestic Abuse Services Manager, about this innovative service. 

What inspired this service?

Prior to the My Ally (MA) service, the relationship and domestic abuse support services within Watford Women’s Centre (WWC) comprised of two domestic abuse support workers offering face to face and telephone appointments and supporting women on a one-to-one basis. 

We spoke with Arron Owen, Service Manager and National Lead for Criminal Justice at Cranstoun, about the service commissioned in 2020.

About Cranstoun

We spoke with Carole Edwards, CEO of the community advice service CASSPLUS, about the key elements of the service and her views on the future of the community advice model.