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Joan Bailey

 

Joan has worked for the Safer Luton Partnership (SLP) since December 1996. She first started as the Peer Education Project Worker and was instrumental in setting up the peer led drugs education project in all 12 of Luton’s High Schools. Joan has published a number of articles on setting up peer led drugs educational training and spoken at conferences both in the UK and abroad. This was extended to include a Peer Mentoring Scheme

In May 2000 she secured the post of Youth Inclusion Programme Manager at the SLP and in 2003 the Programme Manager. She has overall responsibility for five main projects consisting of 26 staff ranging from work with young people, through to families, target-hardening initiatives like Burglary and Auto Crime as well as planning, delivering and evaluating training. The SLP acted as the project arm of the Luton’s Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, (CDRP) from 1998 to 2007 and Joan’s other duties included responsibility for managing the Luton CDRP on a day to day basis for the council and police. The SLP provides training placements for police officers in training

Joan’s experience is in work related to young people, primarily from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities, around issues associated with community safety. Joan has over 20 year experience of working with young people in a range of projects in both in the UK and abroad, having spent eight years in the USA, working as a Drugs Outreach worker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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