E3: Luke Billingham on inequality, youth support and the worth of cages.

Luke Billingham is Youth & Community Worker at Hackney Quest and Academic Researcher at The Open University.  Luke's main focus for Hackney Quest is providing intensive support to young people (and their families) who are experiencing complex difficulties, especially in relation to the education system. He has also set up a number of youth-led community change initiatives in Hackney Wick, the part of Hackney that he's from, and where Hackney Quest is based. In 2022 Luke published his first book, Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective, co-authored with Keir-Irwin Rogers. - All views expressed are those of the host and the guest and not representative of the London Borough of Hackney and Tower Hamlets - Find out more about the Luke Billingham - https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-billingham/?originalSubdomain=uk Find out more about Hackney Quest - https://www.hackneyquest.org.uk/ Connect with Patrick Scally - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-scally/ Find out more about the Hackney Wick and Fish Island Creative Enterprise Zone - https://www.hwfi.zone This podcast was recorded at Trowbridge Talks at Trowbridge Gardens a multi-use space by Arbeit. Find out more here - https://www.arbeit.org.uk/podcast-studio