Slough Violence Taskforce October 2019: Multi-agency partners pledge - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Slough Violence Taskforce October 2019: Multi-agency partners pledge their support for collaborative efforts to tackle serious violence. Purpose of the taskforce, thematic workstreams, and membership agreed. Slough Violence Taskforce • To provide a multi-agency, co-ordinated approach to address the issue of serious violence in Slough • Identify work streams and deliverables under the local serious violence strategy • Monitor the impact and value of deliverables under the local strategy, to ensure the best response for Slough is achieved, ensuring a safer community • Facilitate the exchange of knowledge, information, and best practice in relation to serious violence • Support evidence based policy making in relation to serious violence Slough Violence Taskforce Data & Insight Violence Reduction Communications Workstream Interventions Workstream Workstream

Direction and Deliverables of Workstreams Slough Violence Taskforce To provide a multi-agency, co-ordinated approach to address the issue of serious violence in Slough Slough Violence Taskforce Data & Insight Violence Reduction Communications Interventions Understand and identify Reassure residents that root causes & key issues Map the current ‘Slough the taskforce is working around involvement in Offer ’& gaps in provision together to tackle violence & its prevention violence in our town Identify & implement interventions that tackle Identify & develop Identify available and root causes of violence innovative methods to missing data communicate with our Identify long-term, Slough communities Understand barriers to sustainable solutions (and ways to improve) Inform the community of data sharing Work with partners & the the activities of the community to build upon violence reduction All of the above will be resources that exist interventions group used to support and inform the work of the Interventions/work to be Explore innovative violence reduction informed by insight methods for encouraging interventions group behavioural change Form Shadow Taskforce

Interventions Workstream: Development of the Slough Violence Reduction Intervention Framework Our structure What it means Our goal Prevention: A Universal Offer to communities, schools and Create a culture in Slough where Universal provision, businesses on the steps that can be taken to prevent preventing Violence is “Everyone’s violence Business” community capacity Providing information on choices and consequences in terms of both violence reduction and keeping safe. Enable individuals families and communities to recognise and respond to Early Intervention Using our partnership information to focus on the the behavioural signs to reduce the risk of communities, individuals and families who are at risk of violence from escalating becoming involved in Violence Recognise and respond to risk factors Collaborative interventions aimed at addressing the risk related to violent behaviour with the aim Targeted factors for local communities, individuals and families of delivering appropriate interventions who are emerging as either vulnerable to violence or interventions with the maximum impact delivered by exploitation through violence skilled persons. Specialised 121 support delivered by professional Reduce the harm to both individuals and Intensive agencies (this includes voluntary/community or statutory communities for those involved in serious interventions provision) over a long term period to those at high risk to violence behaviour harm through violence

Taskforce Workstream Update Slough Violence Taskforce Slough Violence Taskforce Met several times to review the progress of subgroups & approve proposed approaches & interventions Data & Insight Violence Reduction Communications Interventions Multi-agency partnership Created a communications workshop explored the plan to define key Mapping the current journey of a young person messages, target ‘Slough Offer’ in relation into serious violence to audiences and mediums to to Early Help Services inform and provide key be utilised. recommendations and Exploring the following Planned launch activities, strategic direction for the interventions: including: interventions workstream - CCTV in Salt Hill Park -A taskforce statement for and the violence taskforce. - Youth workers in A&E all partners to use - 24 hr helpline for Key findings included: victims under 18 yrs old -Uploading details of the • Need for early risk - Specialist Tier 3/4 taskforce to the SBC indicators intervention teams website • Lack of a consistent -Exclusive print & radio ‘whole family/ situational Exploring system for case interviews with Josie view’ across the management Wragg (SBC) & Lee partnership Barnham (TV P) • Lack of evidence based Developing a shadow interventions with taskforce proven impact

Taskforce Action Plan – Examples of Work % Area Aim Action Responsible Target Date Progress Status Complete Complete - gaps identified in service provision • Preventative services required for early years – to empower and support parents to develop a strong bond with their children Create a provision map of and to improve parental mental health Residents and violent crime reduction • Access to support and information for practitioners are able to interventions available Michael parents/ carers in relation to CE, Gang Interventions 21/05/2020 50% Amber access and support and review the Jarrett involvement, knife crime – focusing on when needed information held by the prevention Family Intervention • Support for children exposed to Domestic Service to identify gaps Abuse and parental conflict • Training for practitioners - family conflict, forced labour, domestic servitude, knife crime, gang violence, to offer support for victims of crime. A consultation was conducted online with 27 young people via zoom. The participants were from a range of faiths, ethnicities and socioeconomic Create a counter backgrounds. The session highlighted the narrative piece with need for messaging that doesn’t create Challenge knife young people as a Dom Youth more fear. For example, it was carrying amongst challenge to knife Unswoth & Rob 21/05/2020 20% Amber Engagement acknowledged that media coverage of young people Deeks culture amongst young knife crime is inevitable, but that media people ‘hype’ had increased young people’s sense of insecurity, resulting in a self- fulfilling prophecy: the more you tell people that young people are carrying knives, the more they will carry knives.

% Area Aim Action Responsible Target Date Progress Status Complete New Detached and Community Team Intervention at has been set up. In current climate point of crisis they are focussing on engaging Design and reshape leading to long term young people not social distancing, they Intervention and part of the support to divert a young were supporting Haybrook cohort, and mediation at SBC youth Service to person away from Ketan Gandhi 21/05/2020 previous to lockdown took this cohort on a 75% Green point of deliver this – recruit violence, and enable residential. Some recruitment to this crisis additional staff to them to team still to take place in particular to 3 support this remain in mainstream apprentices but just awaiting the education Apprenticeship training programme to be verified so we can estimate a start date Agree funding from SBC Capital and TVP Surge Funding Funding agreed Agree camera Extend CCTV coverage 50% Community Safety placement via Peter Webster 21/05/2020 Camera placement agreed Amber into Salt Hill Park to consultation support community Instillation to commence June 2020 safety within Slough Install new cameras Test and commission Review the behaviour Develop protocols and PEAR panel to and consult with key New fair access protocols are in draft ensure that systems stakeholders. Jamie and will be going to consultation in the and processes used to Rockman/ Education 21/05/2020 summer term 20% Amber manage exclusions are Incorporate the Johnny fit for purpose, and system for managed Kyriacou Systems review to take place following support young people. moves into the new agreement of the protocols protocols.

Journey May 4 th Meeting: Local multi-agency serious violence 2020 action plan developed according to findings from workstreams and March Summary 2020 local/national research → action plan being delivered 5 th Meeting : 3 rd Meeting: January Monitoring Workstream findings 2020 progress, presented to inform assessing local action plan & changes due to strategic direction COVID-19 December 2019 National directive & Slough local picture leads to taskforce October being established. 1 st meeting held & 2019 2 nd Meeting : key workstreams/groups established Direction and deliverables of workstreams & Slough Violence Intervention Framework developed