Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme Mick McNally, Front Line team lead, Home Office 16th September 2014

2 Where did we start…?

Age, gender and deprivation are powerful drivers of violence 3

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

5 A new approach

November 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 6

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

Supporting local areas to tackle gang and youth violence 8

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” 9

10 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 11

12 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 13

14 Improving early intervention

Early intervention Programme of work with Early Intervention Fund 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 15

16 Prevention and routes out

Maximising opportunities for engagement 17

Raising awareness example – Joint Enterprise training pack and DVD 18 Order by phone or (Option ‘0’) Product code: JOINT ENTERPRISE

19 Practical improvements in information-sharing

Partnership working and information sharing 20

21 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 22

23 Gang-associated women and girls

Women, Girls and Gangs - 24

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26 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. 27

28 Links to organised crime and radicalisation

29 Challenges ahead…