Welcome to SMART Training and Consultancy
We are a specialist organisation dedicated to transforming how professionals understand and respond to youth violence, exploitation, and harm. Our work focuses on the most urgent and complex issues facing young people today, including County Lines, Child Criminal Exploitation, Group Offending, Gangs,, Knife Crime and Youth and Peer on Peer Violence.
We offer high-impact training, consultancy, and reflective tools that equip professionals with the skills, insight, and confidence to make a real difference.
We offer high-impact training, consultancy, and reflective tools that equip professionals with the skills, insight, and confidence to make a real difference.
Our Services
Training & Consultancy Services
We deliver bespoke training packages on:
We deliver bespoke training packages on:
- Gangs & Serious Youth Violence
- County Lines & Exploitation
- De-escalation & Conflict Management
- Reflective and Trauma-Informed Practice
- Professional Curiosity & Safeguarding
- Case reviews
- Strategic safeguarding support
- Policy development
- Organisational improvement
Introducing Tough Topics: Youth Violence Prevention Programme
Empowering Young People | Preventing Violence | Creating Safer Futures
The Time for Change is Now
For over 20 years, I have worked alongside young people affected by violence, gangs, and exploitation—helping them navigate the challenges of their world and find meaningful solutions. I have seen the power of education, open conversations, and the right support in transforming lives.
That’s why I created the Youth Violence Prevention Programme, a groundbreaking, interactive educational tool designed to help young people make positive choices, break the cycle of violence, and build safer communities.
Tough Topics: Youth Violence is available now from Loggerhead Publishing:
https://loggerheadpublishing.co.uk/tough-topics/
Spread the word and share with your networks. Together, we can be the change that breaks the cycle.
It's time to end the silence around the violence.
For over 20 years, I have worked alongside young people affected by violence, gangs, and exploitation—helping them navigate the challenges of their world and find meaningful solutions. I have seen the power of education, open conversations, and the right support in transforming lives.
That’s why I created the Youth Violence Prevention Programme, a groundbreaking, interactive educational tool designed to help young people make positive choices, break the cycle of violence, and build safer communities.
Tough Topics: Youth Violence is available now from Loggerhead Publishing:
https://loggerheadpublishing.co.uk/tough-topics/
Spread the word and share with your networks. Together, we can be the change that breaks the cycle.
It's time to end the silence around the violence.
New Release — 30 Days of Reflection: Home Truths Card Set
Real Talk. Real Reflection. Real Change.
This powerful set of 30 cards is designed to provoke honest conversations, challenge assumptions, and reconnect professionals with the heart of their practice. Based on Junior Smart’s widely shared Home Truths series, each card pairs a bold, system-shaking statement with three reflective prompts — inviting daily insight, integrity, and growth.
Whether you work in youth justice, education, social work, safeguarding, or mental health, these cards are for those who carry the emotional weight of frontline work — and want to carry it better.
This powerful set of 30 cards is designed to provoke honest conversations, challenge assumptions, and reconnect professionals with the heart of their practice. Based on Junior Smart’s widely shared Home Truths series, each card pairs a bold, system-shaking statement with three reflective prompts — inviting daily insight, integrity, and growth.
Whether you work in youth justice, education, social work, safeguarding, or mental health, these cards are for those who carry the emotional weight of frontline work — and want to carry it better.
This 30-card downloadable set is designed to:
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- Challenge assumptions
- Deepen reflective practice
- Spark honest conversations in safeguarding, youth work, and education
- A bold “Home Truth” drawn from lived and frontline experience
- 3 carefully crafted reflection prompts designed to challenge your way of thinking, personal, practice-based, and systemic
- Supervision
- CPD and training
- Team check-ins
- 1:1 reflection
- Or simply to reset your purpose
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County Lines Parent LeafletWith so many stories about County Lines and gangs in the press and on social media, no one could blame any parent or caregiver for being concerned about it –wondering what to look out for and what they can do. This leaflet has been designed to give parents, guardians and caregivers the information they need.
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Let's Talk About Gangs - Advice for Parent's and CaregiversViolent crime appears to be on the increase yet again. Every day seems to bring with it another news story of a knife, gun or gang related crime. We are living in a time where crimes are getting more and more serious and at the same time the age of young people becoming involved appears to be getting younger.
This leaflet exists to give you the parent, carer or guardian the basic facts on what gangs are, possible signs to look for if you are worried about your child and where to go if you need advice.
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Advice Infographic for parents and caregiversI have answered requests from parents and caregivers worried about their children and gangs and put together an infographic which breaks down the 5 big questions into easy steps. By all means download, share and pass on to those who will benefit.
We need to keep the conversations going 
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