The Home Office has published a consultation on options for supporting a multi-agency or ‘public health’ approach to tackling serious youth violence, including options for the introduction of a new legal duty and a non-legislative option for partners to work together voluntarily.
The proposals seek 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 aims to address ‘what works’ in tackling the root causes of serious youth violence by bringing together organisations together to share information, data and intelligence, and encourage them to work in concert rather than in isolation.
You can read the proposals in full here (external link)
The consultation deadline is 28 May 2019.