Our mission is to inspire tomorrows young leaders, this is why Kenny has taken a step back and opened the door for a team of over 30 young people in the involvement of producing the third report. All 24 authors of the report are under the age of 25, ranging from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life, which offers a great new format and understanding to the Kenny Report.
The purpose of these reports is to raise awareness and articulate the challenges young people and disadvantaged communities are facing. This report offers solutions as well as bold and innovative recommendations as to how we can solve many of the issues in our society today. This report will help to assist any young person to gain a better understanding of why politics is important and how the issues discussed are all political and affect their lives, whether they care about them or not.
The Kenny Reports are a series of publications that voice the concerns of many young people across the UK. Ultimately the vision of The Kenny Reports is to inspire young people to turn their own ideas into reality and play their part in creating positive change. Kenny Report three is entitled 'Personalised Politics', it's the most innovative, thought provoking and revolutionary report produced from the Kenny Report series so far.
Diahanne Rhiney Consultancy
Following the success of the two previous Kenny Reports, Kenny Imafidon has come back with a team of young authors ready to take on the third report. Kenny Report 3 is entitled 'Personalised Politics', it's the most innovative, thought provoking and revolutionary produced report from the Kenny report series so far. Register Free
Is now a retired Superintendent who has served 30 years in the Metropolitan Police Service.His last operational posting was successfully co-ordinating the safety and security of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympics across the UK. He also contributed to the post Games Legacy security report to Government, before retiring in July 2013.
Leroy created an award winning community empowerment & consultation programme in Westminster, which had been inspired by the Metropolitan Black Police Association (Met BPA). Which also forms the YBPA (Young Black Positive Advocates), made up of graduates from the leadership programme launched in 2001, which is now a BTECH level 2 accreditation equivalent to a GCSE; part of the pan London VOYAGE (Voice Of the Youth And Genuine Empowerment) strategy, under the BPA Charitable Trust Chaired by Leroy.
During Leroy’s role in the Met BPA, he contributed to their written & oral submission to the Lawrence Inquiry in ‘98. He was also a founder of the National Black Police Association, ’98 – ’99. As a result of his leadership role in the 2002 Damilola Taylor murder investigation, supported by other Met BPA members, Leroy developed the business case for affinity policing model that showed diversity in action, which contributed to the development of the award winning Cultural & Communities Resource Unit in the MPS Specialist Operations & other enforcement agencies across the country.
Has over a decade of experience in central government roles spanning departments including: Work and Pensions, Cabinet Office, Treasury and Ministry of Justice. Meena has spent several years specialising in EU and international policy where she has represented the UK’s employment and social affairs interests both in the UK and EU. She recently led on a review of cross-government spending on mental health at the Treasury, and is currently a strategic finance planning adviser at the Ministry of Justice.
Meena describes herself as a strategist and a motivated self-starter. She has a keen interest in issues of diversity and inequality. She also holds an MSc (with distinction) in ‘Race’ and Ethnic Relations where key areas of exploration included the labour market experiences of women in the global south, anti-Semitism as a modernist project, Indian nationalism in the UK, and the (re) criminalisation of black British youth in social and governmental policy. Meena is currently working on her doctoral thesis in which she is considering the social construction of the ‘criminal black youth’ in relation to histories of disorder and urban unrest in the UK.
Viv is the senior partner and architect of Coreplan, he has developed many private sector and not-for-profit companies. He has close links with those in the poorest communities whilst simultaneously adopting a strategic approach to campaigning for economic and political equity. He is a passionate and inspirational international speaker, leadership coach, social policy advisor, and social entrepreneur.
Mr Ahmun has successfully developed many interventions that have enabled some of the most challenged people in our society to function and thrive in today. He works tirelessly to support professionals primarily in the public sector and non-profit sectors, although in recent years his ability to come up with corporate social responsibility (CSR) related solutions has endeared him to an increasing number of corporations. He currently spends his time supporting the development of social action networks, international education hubs and facilitating the development of social policy vehicles. .
Annette was Strategic Director of Addiction and Offender Care for Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust from 2009-2014. This role included growing the portfolio from £25 to £45million and overseeing drug and alcohol treatment services for over 10,000 service users a year and offender health care in over 12 prisons.
Annette was an Executive Director of Quality for 6 years at the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA), responsible for overseeing the expansion of drug treatment in England from 2001. Before NTA she was, Director of Policy for DrugScope the national umbrella charity for drug misuse; and a research fellow at Imperial College, University of London her role included evaluating substance misuse and public health services. Annette is now an independent consultant specialising in not-for-profile organisational and community development. She is a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) advising government on drug policy and co-chairs the Recovery Committee. She is also a trustee of two charities: AdFam and a new peer-led organisation Build on Belief (BoB) and also a Director of Choices Consortium.
Dr Diahanne Rhiney is a successful award-winning businesswoman with a proven track record in personal PR and reputation management. Her interview with the late Coretta Scott King, was a poignant reminder of the courage and inner strength one person could pass on to another together with the importance of empowering others to strive to achieve better. Her company 15 Degrees paved the way for diversity marketing in the UK. Diahanne has led targeted marketing and PR campaigns for the NHS and brands such as BMW USA and Budweiser. She also worked on a campaign that involved negotiations between The Post Office and The Bank of England.
Her expertise also extends to psychology and counseling in areas such as emotional and physical abuse, domestic violence and substance abuse with vulnerable and disenfranchised young people. Diahanne acquired her PhD in Psychology, which was to become a stepping-stone in what Diahanne now considers her true calling – family, community, children and young people.
David has over 15 years experience as an independent change management, organisational development and leadership consultant. His expertise lies in the area of ‘top team’ and senior management development. He regularly undertakes a range of interventions with this cadre aimed at improving both managerial and organisational effectiveness. David also works with boards on board development and governance issues and has undertaken this with organisations in the private, public and voluntary sectors.
A former local authority senior manager, university lecturer, political advisor to two senior government ministers, David’s clients have spanned public, private and not-for-profit sector. He uses his skills in management development, team building and mediation where he acts a ‘critical friend’ and coach for a small portfolio of managers and regularly undertakes public speaking engagements focussing on issues relating to conflict management, personal effectiveness, diversity, staff engagement and leadership. David is currently Vice President of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is a fellow of the British American Project (BAP) – an influential body comprising key business, media and political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.
Is an award-winning author and is currently a special advisor on youth violence for the Coreplan Group. He regularly advises organisations and government on best practice in some of the most serious cases. He has 10 years experience working as a specialist in the housing sector rehousing ex- offenders, and vulnerable young people and their families. During that time he has also been involved in the development of professionals in related sectors through the training he provides, and the books he has written.
Sloley has made a point of remaining rooted in the communities he serves and that raised him. His creative side, namely as an author, has added value to his professional practice because it allowed him to take some of the most toxic social policy issues and wrap them up in narrative that gets through to those in greatest need of life changing information and guidance. His books regularly do the rounds in YOIs like Feltham and Isis Belmarsh, and today parents, teachers and those working with young people in prisons use his literature in their workshops, presentations and one-to-one work.
Currently sitting as the chair on several leading black organisations, passionate writer and advocate for justice, political strategist, public speaker, and campaigner. As a Policy Director for the former Mayor of London for 8 years for Equalities and Policing he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience.
As a consultant Jasper offers: Strategic citywide political and policy assessments, training, policy development and implementation. Political and social environmental corporate scanning offering strategic assessments, forward planning and advice, equality and diversity legislation, policy audit and assessment, unique forward planning, equalities assessment. community relations, crime prevention, cultural strategies for a cohesive communities and production of articulate, accessible and persuasive report writing and research for a wide variety of audiences, external relations, political, business, community, key stakeholder engagement planning and strategy development. Jasper’s work continues to expand in and around the community.
Is the co-founder of GEEDA (Gender Education and Enterprise Development for Africa) and Director of Aspire Education Group. Patricia is a former Head teacher of an international school and GM of an independent business college in West Africa. Patricia’s insight and experience spans three decades in the fields of equality, education, youth development, women and international development.
Together with Akyaaba Addai Sebo and other leading political figures, Patricia helped to establish Black History Month in London in the 1980’s, a Sankofa School and a Pan African Women’s organisation in Germany in the 1990’s. In 1994, Patricia co—organised a historic Women’s Congress together with the late Dr. Tajudeen Abdul Raheem for the 7th Pan African Congress in Uganda and was a trustee of his Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Organisation for almost 10 years. Patricia has consulted for UNICEF, Action Aid, CfBT and Concern Universal. Her article “Is Africa rising with women leading the way?” was published in New African magazine.
As a university teacher and researcher, he has written extensively on housing policy and social justice and has acted as a consultant to a number of housing organisations in the UK and overseas. His latest publication is an A-Z of Housing.
He has spent most of his working life as a researcher, writer and teacher in the field of the Built Environment, specialising in housing economics and finance. He has taught business planning and contributed to recent research projects relating to asset management. He has also contributed to the international literature on inter-generational justice.
Garnett has acted as chairman to a number of community organisations, including two housing associations. He is currently chairman of Centigen a newly formed facilities management company wholly owned by Two Rivers Housing. He has helped to design a new degree course for housing practitioners for the University of Gloucestershire and runs a small charity aimed at improving housing conditions for those in need at home and abroad.
Pitt is a Vauxhall Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bedfordshire. He has worked as a school teacher; a street and club-based youth worker; a group worker in a young offender institution and as a consultant on youth crime and youth justice to the police and youth justice and legal professionals in the UK, mainland Europe, the Russian Federation and China. He is Associate Editor of Safer Communities and Youth and Policy.
He has written extensively about youth justice in England and Wales, most notably in The New Politics of Youth Crime (Macmillan, 2001) and in the past eight years he has undertaken studies of violent youth gangs in London, Manchester and West Yorkshire, some of the findings of which are recounted in Reluctant Gangsters (Routledge, 2008). Since 2007 he has acted as an adviser on violent youth gangs to local authorities and police forces. He was a consultant to the Centre for Social Justice enquiry into violent youth gangs in the UK, published as Dying to Belong (2009) and a participant in the Prime Minister's Gang Summit in October 2011. He is deputy chair of the London Gangs Forum and was a member of the Children's Commissioner's Inquiry into Child and Adolescent Sexual Exploitation. In July 2011 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters for his outstanding contribution to the development of youth justice in England and Wales.
Motivates people to achieve their goals. Knowing that I have contributed to the success of others gives me ultimate job satisfaction.
Annelie is an innovator and has successfully set up organisations from scratch. She has the ability to motivate and inspire people and has worked directly on empowerment programmes in challenging deprived inner city areas. She has experience of working with boards and has specialist knowledge of the public and charity sector.
Annelie moved to England from Sweden over twenty years ago and brings a fresh approach to management. While her emphasis is on achievement, she believes work life balance is crucial for success. Ownership, she says is key: we are all responsible for our communities and workplaces and our role contributes to their success or failure.
Developing responsibility in managers and teams is something Annelie is passionate about; her specialism lies in coaching managers into leaders. She also has excellent experience working with young people. She strongly believes that with the right tools and support, leaders can be developed anywhere. Annelie has broad experience in Asset and Housing management spanning budgets running into millions of pounds and has a proven track record in recovering performance failures.
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Kenny Imafidon was born on May 7th 1993 in London, to Nigerian parents. He grew up in Peckham, South East London, in a single-parent environment with his mother and younger brother. He went to school at Kingsdale Foundation School where he attained 12 GCSE’s A-C‘s and was a prefect, as well as an A level student at Richmond Upon Thames College, where he studied Philosophy, Politics, Economics & History at A-Level. Throughout his childhood, he was exposed to and has experienced many of the challenges millions of young people who are a growing up in deprived communities across the country face today such as, growing up in single-parent household; living in poverty; violence; crime; lack of opportunities; drugs and alcohol abuse and educational disparity. All these experiences have helped shape his politics.
Kenny has always been in love with politics and has always aspired to be a Member of Parliament since he can remember. He decided to pursue his love for politics from the tender age of 16, by ensuring he secured various work experiences in local, regional and central government, as well as campaigning for change and making sure youth policy is on the government’s agenda. He has been delivering speeches to many professionals and politicians at public and private events since he was 16 about the issues young people face and innovative ways to tackle those issues. Kenny’s favourite political figures are: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
In May 2011, he was remanded in custody for a total of seven serious charges including murder, along with four of his closest friends. He was arrested and charged whist he was in his final year at college. In spite of this heavy blow, he was determined to take his exams and fought hard for the chance to do so, and in the end he became the first person to do A-levels in Feltham and passed all three subjects, though not with the top grades that had been predicted at college. In November 2011, justice was given and he was acquitted halfway during the trial of all seven charges made against him on directions of the judge. He’s two co-defendants however are currently serving life sentences with a minimum of 30 years and 26 years.
Whilst on his journey as a young person growing up in Peckham, South East London, Kenny’s passion was ignited to investigate, create and write the series of “Kenny Reports”. The purpose of the Kenny Reports is to raise awareness and articulate the challenges young people and disadvantages communities’ face. The Kenny Reports also provide solutions to issues such as, voter apathy, crime, education, young unemployment and youth engagement in politics. The Kenny Reports have been made reference to by national and local news, high profile publications, professors, service providers, and politicians and has also been mentioned in parliamentary debates.
In 2012 Kenny was awarded a 3year Amos Bursary scholarship to study a LLB degree at BPP University College, 2015 he is now in his final year of study.
He is currently the chair of the social enterprise ‘Push Your Passion’ and a trustee of the ‘British Youth Council’. As a trustee and director of the British Youth Council, he and his colleagues represent the views of 7 million young people across the council’s networks. Kenny is also a ‘Bite the Ballot’ ambassador.
Kenny has had the opportunity to advise and work with various organisations in the corporate, public and charity sector, as well as politicians, civil servants and government departments. He is currently working on a report for the Europe Commission in partnership representatives from the governments of Poland, Lithuania, Germany and Israel, on how to engage more young people in social action and political participation across Europe.
Kenny has also received a number of notable awards recently such as:
– The “Future Leaders Awards 2013 (Under 35)” at the African Diaspora Awards 2013
– “The Rhiney Award 2013-2014″ for community leadership and commitment to our community
– Southwark Civic Award 2014 – Letter of Commendation
– Rare Rising Star (No.1) 2014 – Selected the most outstanding black student in the UK
– Peacemaker of the year award 2014 (Runner up) – Anne Frank Trust
Following the success of the previous Kenny Reports 1 & 2, Kenny Imafidon has opened the door for 24 other young authors to take part in producing the 3rd Kenny Report whiles Kenny can now add editor to his title. The 3rd report is entitled ‘Personalised Politics’, it’s been labelled the most innovative, thought provoking and revolutionary report produced from the Kenny report series so far. On 8th April 2015 the report went live on the KennyReport3.com site and was launched into the hands of over 600+ people and now the report has taken on a journey of its own and Kenny can now prepare for his next ventures into law / politics and anything else he puts his mind to.