ROUTES Bristol

ROUTES is focused on tackling Serious Youth Violence (SYV) and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) across East Central Bristol.

The ROUTES service is delivered in partnership between Barnardo’s and Learning Partnership West (LPW) with the hope of “Providing young people with an alternative pathway”.

ROUTES deliver a relationship based, trauma informed, one to one intervention to children, young people and young adults who are at risk of Serious Youth Violence (SYV) and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE).

This service has a clear remit of supporting children and young people where there are known risk/concerns around peer on peer violence/association (often referred to as gang affiliations), knife crime and criminal exploitation.

ROUTES is not a preventative service and only supports those young people where there are significant concerns and risk linked to criminal exploitation.

The service is open to children and young adults of all genders and support young people up to the age of 24.

The service is able to support those who live in East Central Bristol or are known to be exploited within East Central Bristol.

Barnardo’s ROUTES have an additional service located in Somerset which has a focus on supporting children and young people at risk of county lines and child criminal exploitation, information can be found here: https://www.barnardos.org.uk/what-we-do/services/routes-somerset

We encourage all parents, young people and professionals to call and talk through any possible referrals prior to making one on 0117 9349726.