Serious violence: new legal duty to support multi-agency action
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Detail of outcome
The Home Office’s response to the consultation on a new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence published on 15 July 2019 sets out in full:
- the background to the consultation
- the government response and next steps following this consultation
- a summary of the consultation responses
Alongside the response we have also published an Impact Assessment. Find out more about the legal duty to prevent and tackle serious violence.
Original consultation
Consultation description
Tackling serious violence requires a multi-agency approach involving a range of partners and agencies such as education, health, social services, housing, youth and victim services, offender management and others. It is also vital that public agencies work in partnership with the voluntary and charitable sector to develop targeted interventions in local communities. Action should be guided by evidence of the problems and what works in tackling their root causes. To do this, we must bring organisations together to share information, data and intelligence and encourage them to work in concert rather than in isolation.
The consultation paper sets out options for supporting a multi-agency or ‘public health’ approach including options for the introduction of a new legal duty and a non-legislative option for partners to work together voluntarily to prevent and tackle serious violence.
We would like to hear from:
- those with expertise in working with young people at risk of criminal involvement and/or re-offending or victimisation
- those involved in law enforcement
- the communities affected by serious violence.
This includes relevant professionals, such as those working in:
- social care
- education
- law enforcement
- local government
- community safety
- youth services
- offender management
- public health and healthcare
We would also value responses from the voluntary sector and, in recognition of multi-agency approaches outside England and Wales, we would also welcome responses from across the UK.
Documents
Last updated 18 August 2021 + show all updates
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Accessible HTML versions of 'Government response', 'Ymateb y llywodraeth', 'Introducing public health measures impact assessment 2019', 'Asesiad Effaith Cyflwyno Camau Iechyd Cyhoeddus 2019', and 'Serious violence legal duty consultation' in English and Welsh added.
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Welsh versions added.
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Consultation outcome.
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First published.