Birchwood

Engagement with young people.

We have been working closely with all our schools, especially primary schools. We have worked particularly closely with Gorse Covert Primary School since they have returned from the summer holidays, as a trial to develop the Kops n Kids initiative. We have worked with years 4, 5, and 6, which the children loved. This has been highly successful, as it gives an opportunity for the children to work directly with the police, and break down the barriers between police and children from an early age, building core relationships and knowing that the police are here to help always. We have developed this initiative through the use of sports as we believe it is a good common interest between the children and police. We aim to continue this work by rolling out the Kops n Kids programme with all primary schools across Warrington East and continue to break down the barriers with all youths.