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Ending Gang and Youth Violence (EGYV)

Ending Gang and Youth Violence (EGYV). EGYV. National programme lead by the Home Office targeted at 29 areas in the country to: Provide one year funding to ‘support the way mainstream services identify, assess and work with young people most at risk of serious violence’

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Ending Gang and Youth Violence (EGYV)

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  1. Ending Gang and Youth Violence(EGYV)

  2. EGYV National programme lead by the Home Office targeted at 29 areas in the country to: • Provide one year funding to ‘support the way mainstream services identify, assess and work with young people most at risk of serious violence’ • Provide peer support and review by a pool of national experts in the gang and youth violence field

  3. Government Strategy • Prevention • New emphasis on early interventions and prevention • Pathways out • Linking with Building Successful Families programme and MST initiatives • Punishment and enforcement • New powers for Gang injunctions • Partnership working • Refreshed government guidance on information sharing including Health and A&E departments

  4. Gang and youth violence in Sheffield • Serious violence involving young people, and involving knives/firearms, is falling • The peak age for committing serious violence is 17-20 • For gang members, the highest risk has come from in-fighting or trying to leave, not territorial disputes • Analysis has identified high overlap with domestic violence and bereavement/separation

  5. Gang Strategy approach

  6. Gang Strategy aims • 4 aims: • Improve our knowledge of gang activity across Sheffield, and the individuals involved • Reduce the opportunities for gangs to take root in Sheffield • Strengthen the action we take against gang members • Protect local communities from the impact of gang activity • Underpinned by the EGYV principles

  7. Progress so far • Established a joint governance group to oversee and ensure the strategic connection between the EGYV, Sexual Exploitation and Building Successful Families agenda in the city  2. Established a multi-agency programme and commissioning group with VCS representation to develop and drive the EGYV delivery plan 3.   Developing tangible ways out of gangs through links with Building Successful Families Programme, developing ‘Integrated Offender Management’ approach to gangs across Police, Offender Management and Youth Crime Prevention services

  8. Progress so far….. 4. Providing small grants process to support the ‘mobilising of communities’ through developing innovative local provisions 5. Developing resources to provided counselling and bereavement services 6. Community resilience/joining together third sector activity through establishing a network of currently funded VCFS and statutory services 7. Working together with Schools for better early referral and prevention through linking in Community Youth Teams to schools and developing a tension monitoring framework

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