In response to national reports of abuse and a heightened awareness of child sexual exploitation (“grooming gangs”), local Muslim and Christian faith and community figures came together to form FACES in 2016.
We saw the harm caused by a racialised and stereotypical reporting of abuse. The perpetuation of racist narratives can harm survivors, create risk to others and damage community cohesion.
With the support of several small grants including from Allder Trust, Near Neighbours and Westhill Foundation, we created awareness training and delivered this to hundreds of people in and outside of Luton.
We became a registered charity in 2021. With multi-year grants from Tudor Trust, we’ve developed CPD courses in broad safeguarding areas from Identity and Inclusion, to Working with Refugees and Relationships and Sex Education.
We work with young people in group settings at schools, alternative provisions, faith groups and holiday clubs.
Collaboration
We honour what our faiths, perspectives, and experiences bring to our work, and reflect this in our planning and delivery of services.
Compassion
Safeguarding should be preventative, responsive, and support overall wellbeing. We tackle victim-blaming, prejudice and ideas around choice and coercion.
Justice
We work towards every child having a safe, meaningful and just childhood, that is free from abuse, discrimination and inequity.
Peace
We address assumptions around ethnicity, religion and gender and their role in abuse, challenging bias and promoting cohesion.
By continuing to use this website you accept the use of cookies. Find out more in the Cookie Settings. Cookie settingsI'm OK with cookies
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
