Responding to the August Disorder: Partnership Event

14 November Partnership Event Event overview: Arrests and charges and profile of those involved Feedback from insight collected from communities and businesses Update from the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Communities and Victims Panel Table discussion Next steps Identify immediate and medium term actions to develop further by the working group

Our Response Keen not to jump to premature conclusions Find out about the profile of people involved Draw on community perspectives about what happened, possible causes and lasting impact Establish working group to co-ordinate approach Draw on and learn from national research Hold discussion with partners and stakeholders Develop immediate and medium term actions

Working Group Will continue to meet until March 2012 to take forward actions Membership: LBH: Young Hackney, Safer Communities & Communications & Lead Cabinet Member for Safer Communities Police Hackney Homes Community Empowerment Network and HCVS To invite from December: Community Engagement Board Chair One of the organisations involved in the HCVS / Ipsos MORI work

Disorder in Hackney: What Happened Hackney- one of many London boroughs affected Need to consider events within the regional and national context Main disorder in Hackney Central and Hackney Downs on 8 August 21 shops (7 locally owned) broken into or suffered damage, 24 cars set on fire Council street cleaning team worked through the night, streets cleared and washed down by 7.30am Mayor and Chief Executive visited residents and businesses effected on Tuesday morning and Wednesday

Community Insight Perspectives drawn from a range of different sources: Community –Residents –Community Advisory Panels –Hackney Council for Voluntary Service- IPSOS MORI research with 2000 people Business –Affected businesses –Town Centre Forums –East London Business Alliance Hackney Forum National research

HCVS/ IPSOS MORI Community Research Over 2,000 residents and workers from across Hackney Male and female participation Age ranges 5 through to 95 A wide range of people reflecting the diverse Hackney population were consulted, including; –range of socio-economic backgrounds –range of ethnic backgrounds [BUT not representative of views of ‘all in Hackney’] Research and engagement took place in a range of locations; –community centres, arts venues, in-street, local barber shops, TV studios Utilising a range of approaches, including; –discussion groups, exploratory art, TV/web debates, Vox pops, workshops, forum theatre Fieldwork took place in October 2011

Summary of Community Perceptions Mixed views about the motivations for those involved Police overwhelmed Media coverage and social media led to events spreading more quickly Better co-ordination of real time communication with residents was needed, although the clean up was commended Highlighted divisions which are normally not apparent Concerns raised about Hackney’s reputation being damaged The events were unpredictable Concern this will happen again Community response widely seen as positive

Perceptions of Underlying Issues Inequality and gap coupled with poor parenting Lack of activities for young people and specifically the disengaged and disenfranchised Lack of job opportunities for local people The need for better community relations with Police, with young people and around stop and search Public sector cuts, especially around services for young people More community engagement needed