Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme Mick McNally, Front Line team lead, Home...

Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme

Mick McNally, Front Line team lead, Home Office

16th September 2014

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Where did we start…?

Age, gender and deprivation are powerful drivers of violence

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PRIMARY SCHOOL5-11yrs

EARLY YEARS0-3yrs

PARENT NEGLECT AND EMOTIONAL TRAUMA

PARENTAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE

SECONDARY SCHOOL11-16yrs

POST STATUTORY EDUCATION

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UNSTABLE FAMILY SITUATION

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

AT HOME

CONDUCT DISORDER

TRUANCY EXCLUSION

GANG INVOLVEMENT

REPEAT VISITS

TO A&E

LOW ATTAINMENT

EARLY & REPEAT OFFENDING

EARLY VICTIM

JOBLESSNESS

DRUG & ALCOHOL ABUSE

ILLEGAL ECONOMY

POOR MENTAL HEALTH

UNSTABLE HOUSING

Lifecycle of a gang member

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A new approach

November 2011... The Government launched ‘Ending Gang and Youth Violence Report’

• August 2011: Disturbances

• November 2011: Ending Gang and Youth Violence report

• Progress and new commitments set out in two further annual reports

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The Ending Gang and Youth Violence Programme

• Providing support

• Partnership working

• Prevention

• Pathways out

• Punishment and enforcement

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Supporting local areas to tackle gang and youth violence

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Ending Gang and Youth Violence priority areas

Metropolitan Police Force Area:

Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Camden, Croydon, Ealing,

Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith &

Fulham, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham,

Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest,

Wandsworth, Westminster

West Midlands Police Force Area:

Birmingham, Sandwell, Wolverhampton

Merseyside Police Force Area:

Liverpool, Knowsley

West Yorkshire Police Force Area:

Leeds, Bradford

Greater Manchester Police Force Area:

Manchester, Oldham, Salford

South Yorkshire Police Force Area:

Sheffield

Derbyshire Police Force Area: Derby

Nottinghamshire Police Force Area: Nottingham

Feedback from local areas

• “Without a doubt, [the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme] has been a help to our work locally... Without it we wouldn’t have been able to achieve half the things we have”

•  “... It’s really good to have an open discussion about a problem rather than talk about who to blame”

• It’s “everybody’s business”

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Where are we now?

Key areas of focus

• In-depth support for local areas

• Improving early intervention

• Prevention and routes out of violent lifestyles

• Violence as a public health issue

• Protection of gang-associated women and girls

• Strengthening the criminal justice response

• Practical improvements in information-sharing

• Understanding the links with organised crime and radicalisation

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In-depth practical support for local areas

Some of the key challenges faced by local areas

• Understanding of the local problem and how to work together to tackle it

• Working with health and mental health partners

• Engaging communities

• Understanding links to local drugs markets and movement of gangs across areas

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Improving early intervention

Early intervention

• Programme of work with Early Intervention Fund 2014-15

• Bespoke expertise to 20 ‘Pioneering places’ – five Ending Gang and Youth Violence areas

• Reviewing ‘what works’ – best practise in preventing - crime, ASB, violence

• Assessment for practitioners – EIF website

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Prevention and routes out

Maximising opportunities for engagement

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Raising awareness example – Joint Enterprise training pack and DVD

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Practical improvements in information-sharing

Partnership working and information sharing

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Violence and public health

Youth Violence and Health

• 2012, DoH: Protecting People, Promoting Health - Prof Mark Bellis et al.

• Public Health England – Health and Wellbeing Boards

• A+E Data sharing

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Gang-associated women and girls

Women, Girls and Gangs

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Cosmopolitan – 17 April 2014

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Strengthening the criminal justice response

Criminal justice response

• Strengthening knife crime legislation

• Community Impact Statements for gang violence

• Gang members given right support in custody

• Improving gang injunctions

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Links to organised crime and radicalisation

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Challenges ahead…