Reduce the amount of crimes committed by young people and stop children and young people from being as scared about becoming victims of crime
This priority forms the Youth Crime Strategy and Action Plan for the Safer Nottinghamshire Board.
You can read the summary below, or access the full versions in the right-hand column.
What will be different in one year’s time?
What actions are planned over the next year?
Why does this matter?
- We want all children and young people in Nottinghamshire to feel safe from crime as is their right
- We want all children and young people to make positive choices about their behaviour so that they can achieve their potential.
Where are we now ?
What the local data tells us about Nottinghamshire
- The number of young people committing crime for the first time is falling in most areas of Nottinghamshire
- The age at which young people commit their first crime is going up.
What children, young people or families tell us
- 23% of young people in Nottinghamshire say they feel safe in their communities. This is below the national figure of 28%
- Large groups of young people often appear intimidating and graffiti, discarded bottles and broken glass make areas feel unsafe
- Seeing and being able to talk to police officers and Police Community Support Officers makes communities feel safer
- Young people who commit crimes should be dealt with quickly.
What will be different in one year’s time?
- We will help all children and young people to avoid becoming involved in crime and nuisance behaviour by giving them positive things to do and helping them quickly when they are in trouble
- All families of children at risk of involvement in crime will have the right support to help them
- Children and young people who become involved in crime will be dealt with quickly, treated fairly and helped not to offend again
- Children, young people and families will be more confident that criminal justice agencies and services for young people can make a difference in their community.
What actions are planned over the next year?
- Increase the availability of positive youth activities during the weekends
- Deliver tailored programmes to young people at risk of exclusion from school
- Youth Offending Service schools worker will deliver knife crime prevention programmes
- Promote ‘Ryan’s story’ citizenship and justice resource to all schools
- Deliver the 'FX project' and Crime Awareness Week in schools
- Commission positive activities for young people in hotspot areas where we know young people are more likely to commit crimes
- Provide Family Intervention Programmes to at risk families using Youth Crime Action Plan funding
- Train workers to provide evidence based parenting programmes through the Parenting Early Intervention Programme (PEIP)
- Continue to deliver parenting support and intervention to families with young people who have offended or who are at risk of offending
- Make more use of pre-arrest advice and contracts for young people whose alcohol use contributes to nuisance or minor criminal behaviour
- Develop multi-agency mechanisms to ensure joined-up assessments of those young people who have been excluded
- Pilot the Youth Restorative Disposal Scheme in Nottinghamshire
- Do more Restorative Justice work in schools and children’s homes
- Establish closer working links between the Youth Support Service and Youth Inclusion and Support Panel (YISP)
- Continue development of prevention work with girls and young women
- Increase opportunities for young people to participate in processes to improve local services and prevent crime
- Review Safer Schools Partnership arrangements
- Increase patrolling at school closing times targeted on places where we know there are likely to be problems
- Involve pupils in developing their own problem profiles and solutions
- Pilot a mediation model between young people and complainants in the Mansfield area
- Commission a county-wide strategic assessment and mapping exercise on youth crime in Nottinghamshire
- Work to combat violent extremism by putting action in place to achieve the national Government ‘Prevent’ strategy. This will include introducing a toolkit for schools ‘Learning together to be safe’.
How will we measure impact?
NI 111 - We will look at whether fewer young people commit a crime for the first time.
- We will look at the annual Tell Us Survey and see if children and young people report an increased feeling of being safe from harm by others.
Contact Information:
Lead Partnership Group:
Nottinghamshire Integrated Youth Support and Development Board
Strategic Lead:
Rob Skelton
Service Director Inclusion and Engagement
Nottinghamshire County Council Children and Young People’s Services
For more information about how this work is being developed, contact:
Laurence Jones
Head of Youth Offending Service
Nottinghamshire County Council Children and Young People’s Services
Tel: 0115 982 3823
or
Chief Inspector Wes McDonald
Communities and Partnerships
Nottinghamshire Police
Tel: 0115 967 0999
