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
16+
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…
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