Agenda item

Received the Strategic Assessment report (pages 9-24 of the agenda pack), introduced by Sanjay Mackintosh, Head of Strategic Commissioning.

Noted

a.         Structured around the priority areas that were identified previously; acquisitive crime, anti-social behaviour, violence against woman and girls, drug & alcohol crime, violent crime, youth crime, reoffending and hate crime.

b.         Employment, training and education and finance were the main drivers behind acquisitive crime.

c.         Almost two thirds of violent offences were linked to either drugs or alcohol. The data suggested that 46% of violent crime offending was linked to alcohol. Whilst almost half of burglary offences related to drugs.

d.       Reported instances of ASB had fallen and was lowest in parts of the borough where targeted activities to reduce ASB had been undertaken.

e.         Instances of residents responding that they were worried about ASB in their area and about the particular problem of youths congregating on the streets, had both seen a reduction in public perception scores. Particular activity had been put in place to monitor the nature repeat callers, especially in terms of from mental health perspective. Some referrals to relevant  services had begun

f.          Reporting of domestic violence had increased dramatically in Haringey, as has the wider London trend. 

g.                     Violence with Injury had increased by 28% compared to a slightly lower London average.

h.       First time youth offending entrants to the system were on a downward trend and continued to decrease.

i.          Youth reoffending rates were on a downward slope but had

           started to level out.

j.          Hate crime/Prevent - Racially and religiously aggravated crime

            had escalated by 84% from its baseline, compared to a much  

            lower rate of increase in London.

The Board were asked to split into groups to review some of the key issues and trends raised in the report. In particular attendees were requested to review; where the gaps were, what had been successful, what had not been successful and what could influence the Board’s priorities going forward.

k.         Key points raised in discussion

·         Ensuring a joined up response and following through with referrals to other Boards.

·         VAWG - Needed to be smarter in the way the board operated with more focused pieces of work.

·         Reduction in reporting of ASB could be a worrying trend and the increase in the west of the borough could be could be related to more confidence to report. Needed to overlay more local data to the understand the picture better.

·         Needed to also aggregate the data upwards for drugs to target it more closely at ward level.

·          Business crimes were missing completely from the data.

·         Regeneration taking place in four of the key affected wards around Tottenham – reports to go up in the short term but downwards as a long term trend.

·         Should prevention for under 16 year olds be better reflected in the Strategic Assessment?

·         Different cultural community perspectives required.

·         Child Sexual Exploitation work was missing.

·         An understanding of young people’s mental health issues and the spectrum of disorders and how this was linked with substance misuse was also missing.

·         The Board needed to better promote its successes, understanding what has been done well and building on this further.

·         As the YOS cohort shrinks and the triage system delivered results, a group of very complex young people would be left and there was a question of whether the Board had mobilised its understanding to deal with this.

·         Needed to overlay similar data in similar areas to better understand the issues.