Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme

Jenny Oklikah, Head of Violence and Early Offending, Home Office

5 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…