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About Fitzrovia Youth in Action​

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Fitzrovia Youth in Action (FYA) supports young people from in and around Camden and Westminster to lead community action and create positive change for themselves, their peers and their community. 

Our vision is a society where children and young people are at the centre of their communities. They feel they belong and are active participants in leading and inspiring community action.  Young people will be confidently fulfilling their potential, with the skills to create positive change in their lives, with their peers and within their community. 

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Every year, FYA supports hundreds of young people in planning and delivering social action programmes which to help tackle the issues that matter to them the most. These include peer mentoring and peer education programmes, youth-led community events and a range of other place-based or system-change type of social action programmes.  

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FYA works in partnership with dozens of youth organisations each year, to support young people from a wide range of backgrounds in delivering social action programmes across Camden and Westminster.  

 

Locally, in Fitzrovia and West Euston, FYA also engages young people through sports sessions, drop-ins and other healthy living activities.   FYA manages the Warren Sports Pitch and The Warren Centre.   

 

The outcomes that FYA strives for are; 

• ​​Increased Resilience and Well-being 

• Greater Sense of Belonging 

• Increased Skills and Experience 

 

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Our approach to modern slavery and human trafficking 

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​At Fitzrovia Youth in Action (FYA), we pledge to implement and enforce effective systems and controls to ensure that modern slavery and human trafficking is not taking place anywhere in our organisation or in any of our supply chains. 

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We are committed to improving, monitoring and maintaining best practice by adopting a zero-tolerance approach throughout all aspects of our organisation.   

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We are also committed to ensuring there is transparency in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chains, consistent with our disclosure obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. We expect the same high standards from all of our contractors, suppliers and other business partners, and as part of our contracting processes, we include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour, or anyone held in slavery or servitude, whether adults or children, and we expect that our suppliers will hold their own suppliers to the same high standards. 

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To identify and mitigate risk, relevant new suppliers must provide details of their existing programme to ensure human trafficking and slavery do not exist in their operations and supply chain. FYA will not award contracts where suppliers do not demonstrate an appropriate level of commitment to ensuring that slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in their own organisation and supply chain. Serious violations will lead to the termination of the business relationship. 

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FYA strives to maintain the highest standards of employee conduct and ethical behaviour when providing support to those entrusted to our care. FYA has a recruitment policy and through this FYA ensures that all individuals who are employed have strong references, a good history of employment and pass a robust on-boarding process. Where recruitment agencies are used, FYA will ensure the agencies will adopt our ethos and high level of checks.  

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FYA has policies and procedures in place to ensure staff are able to recognise signs of modern slavery and human trafficking, know how to report any concerns or incidents and are aware the organisation will support those who raise concerns.  

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Our training programmes are reviewed and updated regularly to ensure that relevant staff are made aware of the risk factors, implications of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, and their areas of responsibility, particularly in terms of safeguarding, equality and diversity, procurement and supply chain management, and recruitment and selection.

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