Reducing youth crime and keeping children and young people safe
Meeting your objectives
Crime and anti-social behaviour committed by, and against, young people is a concern for parents and young people, as well as community safety partnerships, the police, and educational establishments working across the UK. Fears for the safety of young people have been compounded recently by the widely publicised and worrying trends in relation to knife crime, gun crime and gang membership and violence.
The risk factors for youth related crime are diverse, and the solutions challenging, and Perpetuity are committed to working with partners to reduce the crime problems and increase the safety and well being of young people. Whether your problems relate to bullying, theft or gang related violence, Perpetuity can work with you to tackle these through tried and tested techniques.
Ways we can help
We can help you to understand the problems facing your organisation and develop strategies for tackling them. If you need reliable evidence or independent research to support your development of strategies to tackle youth issues, our researchers can collect useful information with which to lobby, campaign or attract funding. Our areas of expertise include:
Audit – assessing current crime/incident trends and gaps in existing measures.
Needs assessments – identifying the needs of specific groups of young people.
Implementation – developing strategies and plans in line with specific needs.
Partnership development – mapping the structure of existing partnerships and offering action plans to encourage further development of partnership work.
Environmental design – assessing the way in which the physical environment could be designed or re-organised to discourage crime and/or anti-social behaviour.
Evaluation – assessing performance and outcomes of specific initiatives so as to inform decision-making on future activity and funding.
Engagement with young people – young people need to be involved in decision making around programmes and services that affect them. We can gather views from young people in your area and help you integrate these views into your strategies.
The Perpetuity promise
Clients benefit from our team’s excellent academic credentials, bringing rigorous research methodologies to their approach, coupled with a broad range of practical experience.
Projects worked on by our researchers and consultants have considered a broad range of issues including poor pupil behaviour, bullying, aggressive parents, intruders and trespassers, graffiti, arson, truancy, gangs, newly qualified teachers, IT security, security equipment and designing out crime. For example: Perpetuity has been working in partnership with the NASUWT (a national teachers union) to develop a toolkit to support schools to tackle gang issues. This toolkit was launched by the Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker in April 2010, and can be accessed via: http://www.nasuwt.org.uk/InformationandAdvice/Professionalissues/Behaviour/GangsToolkit/index.htm
Want to know more?
To find out more about how we would develop an approach to meet your specific needs, email prci@perpetuitygroup.com or phone 0116 222 5555.
Related Products:
Incident Monitoring and Assessment Tool (IMAT) – a unique web-based resource for schools that helps them to collect, store and interpret data on crime and anti-social behaviour. IMAT also incorporates an email/phone helpline.
Secured Environments – a police certification scheme which provides an easy-to-follow framework for undertaking your own risk assessment and developing an informed response. On completion of a successful audit, you will be able to use the police approved ‘Secured Environments’ logo and receive a certificate signed by the police – all concrete evidence to students, staff, parents and the general public of your commitment to crime prevention
