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• Reference: 2021/4020
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 14 October 2021

How are you working with boroughs and others to ensure that all children who receive free school meals in London get the best quality, healthiest food possible?

• Reference: 2021/3599
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

It is essential that mental health support is linked to ongoing work on knife crime prevention and work programmes discouraging young Londoners from joining gangs. Please provide details of how the Violence Reduction Unit is working with the NHS and other health partners in this area.

• Reference: 2021/3601
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

The Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime recently said MOPAC is working with boroughs to ensure better tracking of children in care who move across boroughs. Please provide more details on this joint work and how you are working with all partners to ensure no children in care across London are unaccounted for, especially those in semi-independent accommodation.

• Reference: 2021/3620
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Work experience for young people was significantly impacted by COVID-19. How are you working to ensure increased work placements across London in the years ahead for those young people who have missed out over the last 18 months?

• Reference: 2021/3628
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 09 September 2021

Under-25s in London suffered 60% of Covid job losses. Work placements are one of the best ways to get young people into employment, helping them gain practical experience, improve their CVs, and connect them with potential employers. How many work placements did young Londoners attend in the last 12 months, and how are you working with businesses to increase this number and provide people with the opportunities, resources, and confidence to take this first step into the world of work?

• Reference: 2021/2715
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

Although I very much welcome the Workforce Integration Design Lab Programme, what plans do you have to support young women and young Black women into the construction sector in London, and will you consider expanding the Workforce Integration Design Lab to include supporting these other underrepresented groups in the construction and infrastructure sectors?

• Reference: 2021/2720
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 15 July 2021

How are you ensuring that the voices of a wide range of London employers are involved in developing the skills offer for all Londoners?

• Reference: 2021/1361
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

There are many valuable youth projects across London, but many of these are small scale or struggle with access to funding. Will you look at working with boroughs and others to establish a central organising body for after school youth activities and opportunities across London, which can not only organise and promote youth activities but also support community groups, schools and other organisations to access funding and promote and advertise the work they are doing?

• Reference: 2021/1379
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

The pandemic has evidenced more clearly than ever that if the political desire is there we can prevent anyone from having to rough sleep on the streets of our city. This is particularly important for our city’s young people. With a growing crisis in youth homelessness in London will you guarantee to ensuring all young Londoners have access to shelter 24/7?

• Reference: 2021/1393
• Question by: Hina Bokhari
• Meeting date: 27 May 2021

You have committed to investing in the roll-out of mental-health first-aid training to schools across London. Can you provide more details on how this training will be delivered and whether it will be offered to all staff in schools and whether any students will be offered the training too?