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Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme

Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme. Jenny Oklikah, Head of Violence and Early Offending, Home Office 5 September 2014. Where did we start…?. Age, gender and deprivation are powerful drivers of violence. EARLY YEARS 0-3yrs. PRIMARY SCHOOL 5-11yrs.

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Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme

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  1. Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme Jenny Oklikah, Head of Violence and Early Offending, Home Office 5 September 2014

  2. Where did we start…?

  3. Age, gender and deprivation are powerful drivers of violence

  4. EARLY YEARS 0-3yrs PRIMARY SCHOOL 5-11yrs SECONDARY SCHOOL 11-16yrs POST STATUTORY EDUCATION 16+ CONDUCT DISORDER EARLY & REPEAT OFFENDING ILLEGAL ECONOMY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AT HOME REPEAT VISITS TO A&E Risk Factors EARLY VICTIM DRUG & ALCOHOL ABUSE PARENTAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE LOW ATTAINMENT POOR MENTAL HEALTH Lifecycle of a gang member TRUANCY EXCLUSION UNSTABLE FAMILY SITUATION GANG INVOLVEMENT JOBLESSNESS PARENT NEGLECT AND EMOTIONAL TRAUMA UNSTABLE HOUSING

  5. A new approach

  6. 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

  7. The Ending Gang and Youth Violence Programme • Providing support • Partnership working • Prevention • Pathways out • Punishment and enforcement

  8. Supporting local areas to tackle gang and youth violence

  9. 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”

  10. Where are we now?

  11. 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

  12. In-depth practical support for local areas

  13. 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

  14. Improving early intervention

  15. 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

  16. Prevention and routes out

  17. Maximising opportunities for engagement

  18. Raising awareness example – Joint Enterprise training pack and DVD Order by phone or email: 0870 241 4680 (Option ‘0’) homeoffice@prolog.co.uk Product code: JOINT ENTERPRISE

  19. Practical improvements in information-sharing

  20. Partnership working and information sharing

  21. Violence and public health

  22. 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

  23. Gang-associated women and girls

  24. Women, Girls and Gangs -

  25. Cosmopolitan – 17 April 2014

  26. Strengthening the criminal justice response

  27. Criminal justice response • Strengthening knife crime legislation • Community Impact Statements for gang violence • Gang members given right support in custody • Improving gang injunctions .

  28. Links to organised crime and radicalisation

  29. Challenges ahead…

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