Publication Database

Desistance and young people

01-May-16

HM Inspectorate of Probation

HM Inspectorate of Probation have released an inspection report to access the effectiveness of practice in Youth Offending Teams. Key findings that helped people move away from offending include: a consistent working relationship with at least one worker, improving relationships with family members and interventions in problem solving solutions to use in day to day situations. �

Crime

Youth service: the Delivering Differently for Young People (DDYP) programme

10-Feb-16

LGiU

This briefing from the LGIU reviews the approaches to youth work being considered by DDYP funded councils. This briefing will be of interest to lead members and senior officers concerned with youth services, as well as the wider youth sector.

Crime

Review of the youth justice system

09-Feb-16

Ministry of Justice

An interim report of emerging findings from the review of the youth justice system.�Plans to transform youth custody in England and Wales have been set out by child behavioural expert and former head teacher Charlie Taylor. As part of his review of youth justice, Charlie Taylor has recommended that young offenders should serve their sentences in secure schools rather than youth prisons.

Crime

Education in England: progress and goals

13-Jan-16

Home Office

This document sets out the 6 priorities of the new cross-government approach to ending gang violence and exploitation. In particular, it is aimed at local areas that were involved in the Home Office ending gang and youth violence (EGYV) programme. The refreshed approach responds to the needs identified by the EGYV frontline team and its partners.

Crime

Local perspectives in Ending Gang and Youth Violence Areas.�Perceptions of the nature of urban street gangs�

01-Jan-16

Home Office

Report published by the Home Office includes findings taken from interviews with practitioners found more nine- to 14-year-olds are getting involved with gangs compared with two years ago. They also estimated the age of the majority of gang members to now stand at 15 to 17, followed by 20 to 24 � slightly older than it was two years ago. The findings came as the Home Office launched a�six-point strategy�to end gang violence and exploitation.�

Crime

Preventing Gang and Youth Violence: Spotting Signals of Risk and Supporting Children and Young People

17-Nov-15

Early Intervention Foundation

The Early Intervention Foundation has been working with the Home Office to produce these reports with the aim of helping local areas more informed decisions about (i) how best to identify those children and young people who may be at risk of involvement in gangs or youth violence, and (ii) what types of programmes or interventions appear to work or not to work in preventing involvement in gangs and youth violence.�The Early Intervention Foundation said it is vital that frontline workers spot early signs and make sure help is provided. The reports show that school-based or family-focused programmes, such as parent training, family therapy and home visits, are most effective in steering children and young people away from a life of crime.

Crime

Youth Matters

07-Oct-15

Mayor of London

A new survey of 9,492 young Londoners about their experiences of crime, due to be published later this year by the Mayor�s Office of Policing And Crime (MOPAC). The majority of the young people (81 per cent) who responded to the survey had never been victims of crime. However the top three issues that affected young Londoners in school daily or regularly were violence and fights (27 per cent); bullying (24 per cent) and people stealing (21 per cent). The survey also revealed that perceived pressure to join a gang was marked for those who had been victims of crime (21 per cent) and attendees or former attendees of Pupil Referral Units (31 per cent). Young Londoners are interested in what the police do, with 23 per cent of survey respondents interested in becoming a Police Cadet.

Crime

As Prevent Centralises, Community Engagement and Local Capacity To Implement Local Tailored Solutions Falls

03-Jul-15

Faith Matters

This report argues that the current strategy�s centralised and top-down deployment markedly reduces local capacity to find tailored solutions that make sense for a given community. The Prevent strategy�s move away from community engagement to a centralised approach is not likely to assemble necessary resources, partners and stakeholders to address the issue of extremism that has changed so significantly given social media platforms and the use of the Internet.

Crime

Breaking the cycle - Reducing youth offending in London

02-Jul-15

Mayor of London

A report by the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee, examines youth reoffending trends in the capital makes a number of recommendations to the Mayor�s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) that contribute to the upcoming revised youth reoffending strategy

Crime

Running the Risks: The links between gang-involvement and young people going missing

01-Jul-15

Catch22

A report from Catch22 Dawes Unit in partnership with Missing People which provides evidence of gang-involved young people going missing from home or care when they are caught up in 'drug lines' and recruited to sell drugs. Researchers uncovered evidence that gangs are setting missing children up in flats for weeks at a time to sell drugs in provincial areas. There was also evidence that young people in children�s homes, pupil referral units and schools, who do not have a criminal record, are targeted by gangs to set up so-called �county lines� because they are less likely to attract police attention.

Crime