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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1104770/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p><em><\/em>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) publish year-end workforce data in their Annual Reports and Accounts (see link below page 44).<\/p><p><a href=\"https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/726580/DBS_ARA_Annual_Report_2017.18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/726580/DBS_ARA_Annual_Report_2017.18.pdf<\/a><\/p><p>(a) Contingent labour - from April 2018 to March 2019 \u2013 the DBS employ be-tween 10-15 Full Time Equivalents (FTE).<\/p><p>(b) Supplier Resource \u2013 this is a managed service in line with Service Level Agreements, which operates flexibly, depending upon business require-ments.<\/p><p>(c) DBS staff as of the 28th Feb 2019 was 939 FTE. This includes Fixed Term Appointments (FTA) and permanent employees.<\/p><p>Staff at the DBS are known as \u2018public servants\u2019 as of the 1st December 2012, when the DBS became a non-departmental public body (NDPB).<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1104873/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>In April 2018, the Government published the Serious Violence Strategy which sets out a comprehensive set of 61 commitments and actions we are taking to tackle violent crime. This includes launching a £22m Early Intervention Youth Fund, which is already supporting 29 projects in England and Wales; a national knife crime media campaign: #knife free; a new National County Lines Coordination Centre and the Offensive Weapons Bill, which will strengthen legislation on firearms, knives and corrosive substances. <br>On 2 October 2018, the Home Secretary announced further important measures including a consultation on new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence, a new long term £200 million Youth Endowment Fund and an Independent Review of Drug Misuse.<\/p><p>Most recently, on 13 March, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £100 million of funding for serious violence in 2019/20. This funding will directly support the police\u2019s immediate response to the rise in serious knife crime, as well as supporting investment in Violence Reduction Units, which will bring together a range of agencies including health, education, social services and others to develop a multi-agency approach to preventing serious violence altogether. It is important that we recognise that greater law enforcement on its own will not reduce serious violence and that we must continue to focus on prevention.<\/p><p>With specific reference to Barnsley and the Sheffield City Region, we have awarded almost £1.25m from the Early Intervention Youth Fund to the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire in support of two projects, one of which is working in Barnsley and the other in Sheffield. In addition, alongside all other police forces in England and Wales, South Yorkshire Police took part in a national week of action to tackle knife crime, called Operation Sceptre, from 11-18 March 2019.<\/p>"}
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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1104890/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>We are clear that robust and consistent sentences for knife crime are an important part of the effort needed to reduce these crimes. Right across Government we are very clear that we must continue to give judges the powers they need to impose tough sentences on those involved in serious violence including knife crime. While individual sentencing decisions are a matter for the courts, we are catching and prosecuting more people who carry a knife, and those who are convicted are now more likely to go to prison, and for longer. Through the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, the Government introduced the sentencing provision that anyone caught in possession of a knife for a second time will now face a mandatory minimum custodial sentence of at least six months for adults and a detention and training order of at least four months for those aged 16 and 17 years old. This came into force on 17 July 2015.<\/p><p>We know that this can only ever be part of the response, and that tackling knife crime requires action on many fronts. This is reflected in the Government\u2019s Serious Violence Strategy which sets out our response to serious violence and outlines an ambitious programme involving 61 commitments and actions. Since launching the Strategy in April last year, we have made significant progress in delivering on our key commitments including:<\/p><p>\u2022 The Early Intervention Youth Fund of £22m, which is already supporting <br> 29 projects in England and Wales;<br>\u2022 Provision of £3.6m for a new National County Lines Co-ordination <br> Centre. The centre was established to tackle violent and exploitative <br> criminal activity associated with county lines and became fully <br> operational in September 2018;<br>\u2022 The National County Lines Coordination Centre has co-ordinated two <br> separate weeks of intensive law enforcement action resulting in more <br> than 1000 arrests, over 1300 individuals engaged for safeguarding, <br> and significant seizures of weapons and drugs; <br>\u2022 An anti-knife crime Community Fund which provided £1.5 million in <br> 2018/19 to support 68 projects;<br>\u2022 The Offensive Weapons Bill to strengthen legislation on firearms, <br> knives and corrosive substances; and<br>\u2022 A national knife crime media campaign - #knifefree - to raise <br> awareness of the consequences of knife crime.<\/p><p>On 2 October 2018 the Home Secretary announced further measures to address violent crime, as follows:<\/p><p>\u2022 a consultation on new legal duty to underpin a \u2018public health\u2019 approach to tackling serious violence- this would mean police officers, educa-tion partners, local authority and health care professionals will have a new legal duty to take action and prevent violent crime.<\/p><p>\u2022 a new £200 million youth endowment fund- this will be delivered over 10 years and will support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence. It will focus on those most at risk, such as those displaying signs such as truancy, aggres-sion and involvement in anti-social behaviour; funding interventions to steer children and young people away from becoming serious offend-ers; and<\/p><p>\u2022 an Independent Review of Drug Misuse. On 8 February, we <br> appointed Dame Carol Black to lead a major review that will look into <br> the ways in which drugs are fuelling serious violence. The approach <br> establishes a new balance between prevention and the rigorous law <br> enforcement activity. It will shift our approach towards steering young <br> people away from crime in the first place and put in place measures <br> to tackle the root causes. We believe that the approach set out in the <br> Strategy, with a greater emphasis on early intervention, will address <br> violent crime and help young people to develop the skills and <br> resilience to live happy and productive lives away from violence but <br> we cannot deliver this alone.<\/p><p>On 13 March the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Spring Statement that there will be £100 million additional funding in 2019/20 to tackle serious violence, including £80m of new funding from the Treasury. This will allow police to swiftly crack-down on knife crime on the areas of the country and also allow investment in Violence Reduction Units.<\/p>"}
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