Learning from the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme

1. 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…?

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…