Responding to the August Disorder: Partnership Event

1. Responding to the August Disorder: Partnership Event

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 diverseHackney 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

8. 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

9. 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