The CDP has taken on responsibility for coordinating the delivery of Nottingham’s Youth Crime Action Plan, a series of new initiatives aiming to tackle youth crime through a mixture of multi-agency led early intervention and pro-active activity. There is funding of 700k (350K across the next two years) available through the Youth Task Force to support implementation.

The plan is split into seven key strands:

Operation Staysafe:

Using child protection legislation, multi-agency teams will conduct operations to identify and remove young people deemed to be at risk from the streets at night and take them to a safe place where a full risk assessment will take place, following the assessment it is anticipated that the child will be returned home (should this not be viable then the individual will be taken into emergency accommodation).

Street Based Teams:

The activity will use multi agency teams of workers to tackle groups of young people involved in crime and disorder. The activity is expected to be focused around early evening periods with a view to diverting young people engaged into positive activities offered within the area.

After School Patrols:

The activity seeks to tackle anti-social behaviour and disorder at school closing time by increasing after-school police patrols where strategic intelligence highlights need.

Youth Workers in Custody Suites:

The funding will place additional Youth Offending Team workers in police custody suites so that young offenders can be assessed and directed to appropriate services at the earliest opportunity and, ultimately, be dealt with prior to engagement with formal judicial processes.

Community Reparation during Leisure Time:

The work will ensure that young offenders feel the consequences of their actions by expanding YOT reparation schemes during their leisure time including on Friday and Saturday nights.

Family Intervention Project:

Developing Family Intervention Projects to work with the most vulnerable and problematic families with children at risk of offending with non-negotiable elements and sanctions for a failure to engage.

Think Family:

Implementation of the ‘think family’ reforms to provide an integrated and appropriate service response to all families at risk by the end of the funding period.

In addition to the YCAP plan are two other innovative projects seeking to help reduce young person offending:

Challenge and Support

The Challenge and Support project is designed to ensure that a coordinated support approach runs alongside the use of anti-social behaviour tools and powers in order to more effectively reduce youth re-offending. In practical terms this should mean that all young people receiving an ASB warning letter will also be offered the opportunity (along with their families) to access a wide range of support options designed to help address offending behaviours.

Intensive Intervention Project (IIP)

The Intensive Intervention Project basis itself upon best practice identified through the FIP model, albeit working with the individual rather than the family. Individuals will be identified through multi-agency assessment, before being assigned to one of three caseworkers. These workers will then work with the client in order to ensure that a holistic set of interventions are developed and adhered to.

Should you require any more information around these projects please contact David Oakes, Strategy and Commissioning Officer Early Intervention on 0115 9156371 or by email David by clicking here .