Early Intervention Youth Fund: successful bids, 2019-20
Updated 26 June 2019
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Total funding awarded: £384,431
This specialist multi-agency project will establish a team of skilled workers who will work with young people at risk of youth violence who are identified as complex moderate/significant risk of criminal exploitation.
Cheshire
Total funding awarded: £410,000
A dedicated outreach intensive protection team will be put together to work with young people and siblings involved in drug dealing across Cheshire. The team will work closely with schools and alternative education provisions but also families to keep young people at risk of being victims and perpetrators of violence in mainstream settings and in positive alternative activities.
Specialist training will also be extended to partner agencies to ensure that they deploy credible, agile and flexible workers to build genuine trust and engagement on a long terms basis with young people who are vulnerable and are exposed to violence.
A programme will also be delivered in schools including primary, secondary, special schools and alternative education settings, to ensure that school staff are enabled to support and divert young people and their younger siblings away from gang associated violence.
Derbyshire
Total funding awarded: £417,570
Project 1
This intervention will take place in up to 12 counties. Each police and crime commissioner (PCC) has identified neighbourhoods most in need of this intervention where the risk factors are greatest. In each area, community organisations from the StreetGames network will host sports volunteering activities.
Project 2
The following programmes will be delivered:
- Switch Up show and workshop programme which focuses on the complex, interrelated issues of knife crime, gang violence and self-identity
- the ‘Drop the Knife’ programme which has a more holistic approach, considering the wider issues that lead to young people carrying a weapon, concentrating on developing their critical thinking and problem solving skills
- the ‘Your Choice’ programme for secondary schools has been running for several years. The programme is based on Zebrared’s, ‘Lessons in hate’ programme
- mentoring Services
Gloucestershire
Total funding awarded: £37,964
This project will deliver early intervention within primary schools to change behaviours, reduce violent crime and improve life chances. There are three elements to this:
- education
- development
- support
Lancashire
Total funding awarded: £24,635
Twilight will aim to reduce young people’s involvement in serious violence and criminal exploitation by engaging young people in positive activities. Twilight has been developed by Preston Vocational Centre (PVC) in consultation with partners, including Preston Community Safety Partnership (CSP).
Leicestershire
Total funding awarded: £347,272
Enhancing “People-Zones” in the most deprived areas of Leicester and Leicestershire where serious violence is prevalent, based upon the principle of affecting behavioural change and building resilience through intervening at a whole community level.
The project will look at employment opportunities for young people with a criminal record, take a trauma informed approach to working with young people who are on the edge of offending and engage third sector providers to work with those young people that can be hardest to engage.
Kent
Total funding awarded: £527,573
Implementation of initiatives that directly address gangs, county lines and exploitation in Kent which is aligned to the PCCs Violence Reduction Challenge (VRC). The initiatives will focus on the VRC themes of prevention, engagement / education and rehabilitation.
Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime
Total funding awarded: £19,786
To run ‘Best You’ behavioural change workshops with young people aged 14-19 who are referred to youth offending teams, based in a Pupil Referral Unit or at serious risk of exclusion from mainstream school, in Barnet, Hackney and Lewisham.
Nottinghamshire
Total funding awarded: £690,877
This project will:
- enable Redthread, the hospital based youth project, to expand their teachable moment provision to support more children and young people before their problems require major trauma treatment
- through a diverse youth work offer (including street based detached youth work and specialist provision for girls and new and emerging communities) improve dialogue, identify hidden harm and intervene early to prevent offending
- deliver and assess bespoke provision to young people with complex needs
- deploy on street community violence interrupters who will step into conflicts to reduce tensions and mediate. The use of online social media violence interrupters will also be examined and piloted
Staffordshire
Total funding awarded: £392,700
This project will tackle serious violence using a co-ordinated blend of universal and targeted interventions, which seek to identify, and address risks faced by young people and respond with an approach which is based upon principles of prevention and early intervention. The project consists of five elements:
- developing a whole school approach across education settings
- supporting young people to develop resilience
- providing support to parents and families
- increasing capacity within existing prevention provision
- developing the partnership workforce