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date	17/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide further details on the Centre of Excellence for Tackling Youth Violence announced in Budget 2020.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	30878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>On 11 March, the Government announced an additional £5 million for the Youth Endowment Fund to support the creation of a Centre of Excellence for Tackling Youth Violence. This will create a single evidence hub on what works to divert young people away from criminal activity and improve the effectiveness of our wider investments in crime reduction, including the work of the Youth Endowment Fund and Violence Reduction Units.</p><p>In 2019, we set up the Youth Endowment Fund to help at-risk young people avoid becoming involved in crime and violence. A core part of the Youth Endowment Fund’s mission is to test and independently evaluate interventions so that we know what works so we can better target future interventions.</p><p>Given the Government’s ambition to reduce youth violence, it is vital that we understand what interventions work and this is effectively disseminated to policy makers. This funding will support the creation of a world-class knowledge base, to ensure evidence on prevention of serious violence is freely accessible and widely shared with policy makers, service commissioners, and front-line professionals, enabling them to design increasingly effective early interventions and support structures for children and young people in their local community.</p><p>Discussions on the development of the Centre of Excellence are underway between Home Office officials and the YEF.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/03/2020 17:11:46 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1054642

registered interest
date	04/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential relationship between school exclusions and youth violence.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	216378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Serious Violence Strategy, published April 2018, summarises the risk and protective factors for violence identified by research.</p><p>The Strategy suggests that school exclusion is a marker for increased risk both in terms of victimisation and perpetration. Whilst this does not mean there is a causal link, the Government recognises there are complex and multiple vulnerabilities that can impact on children’s outcomes and is accordingly taking action to address this.</p><p>The Home Office and Department for Education continue to work together to deliver the commitment in the strategy to consider support for pupils at risk of exclusion as well as for those who have been excluded, to reduce the risk of them being drawn into crime and associated pathways.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/02/2019 17:11:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

982535

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of young people who will be reached by the (a) Early Intervention Youth Fund, (b) Community Fund and (c) National County Lines Co-ordination centre as set out in the Serious Violence Strategy 2018.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	176433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Strategy stresses the importance of early intervention to tackle the root causes of serious violence and provide young people with the skills and resilience to lead productive lives free from violence. The strategy includes a range of commitments designed to ensure young people receive the help and support they need.</p><p>We do not have estimates of the number of young people who will be helped by the Early Intervention Youth Fund, the anti-knife crime Community Fund and the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre. The funding is being targeted though on where it will have the most impact including areas with high crime levels.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/10/2018 15:58:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

828146

registered interest
date	22/01/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent young people committing violent crimes.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	124106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government is delivering a range of action to prevent violent crime including action to tackle knife crime and gang related violence and exploitation.</p><p>Our work to tackle knife crime includes early intervention and prevention work with key partners such as the charity Redthread who intervene with young people in hospital at the ‘teachable moment’. We have awarded £765,000 from a new anti-knife crime community fund launched in October 2017 to support local communities to tackle knife crime. 47 different projects have been supported through the community fund, and the projects awarded funding were particularly aimed at helping young people.</p><p>We are also supporting the Operation Sceptre national week of action by police forces to tackle knife crime which is taking place in February. Police forces will be undertaking weapon sweeps, targeted stop and search operations, undertaking test purchasing, encouraging the use of surrender bins, and carrying out educational activities with young people.</p><p>Through the Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation (EGVE) programme the Home Office is providing match funding for local area and strategic reviews in areas experiencing gang related issues and challenges to test and build local resilience towards tackling these types of criminal activity, especially county lines. 13 local areas were reviewed in 2016/17 and a further 15 areas are benefiting from these reviews in 2017/18. This supports our wider work to tackle county lines and especially preventing young people becoming offenders or victims through county lines drugs dealing with its associated violence and exploitation. The new Drugs Dealing Telecommunications Restriction Orders (DDTROs) introduced in December will also help tackle county lines drugs dealing.</p><p>We have provided funding for 12 Young People’s Advocates to work directly with gang-affected women and girls. We have also provided funding in 2017/18 of over £280,000 to 16 local EGVE projects, including projects delivering gang, knife and county lines awareness training for young people, practitioners and foster carers, community sports and arts projects and mentoring programmes.</p><p>An action plan to tackle the use of acid and other corrosives in violent attacks was announced by the Home Secretary in July 2017. This included actions to improve the policing response and also the introduction of a voluntary set of commitments for retailers to not sell certain particularly harmful corrosive substances to under 18s. The agreement with retailers was introduced earlier this month.</p><p>The Government will be publishing a Serious Violence Strategy shortly.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/01/2018 16:50:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel