ACPO Professional Standards Conference Programme
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Tuesday 17 March 2009
| 13:00 | Conference Opening and Housekeeping Mark Easton, Conference Facilitator, Home Editor, BBC News All conference sessions will take place in the Royal Suite |
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| 13:05 | Welcome to Nottingham Alan Given QPM, Chief Executive, Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership A welcome and introduction to the conference from Nottingham City Council. |
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| 13:15 | Public Protection and Safeguarding: Two Key Aspects of Youth Offending Work Andrew Bridges, HM Chief Inspector of Probation This presentation will address Assessment and Management of Risk of Harm to others, and of risk of harm to self, including from others. The session will outline how Youth Offending practitioners and their managers can demonstrate that they are “taking all reasonable action” to prevent each young person they see from harming others or coming to harm themselves.
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| 13:40 | Priority and Prolific Offenders (PPO) Julia Hodson, Chief Constable, Nottinghamshire Police Julia will present an overview of how the Priority and Prolific Offenders (PPO) scheme came into being, and describe the three strands of activity: Prevent and Deter, Catch and Convict, Rehabilitate and Resettle. There will also be an overview of the PPO scheme in Nottinghamshire including statistics of the numbers on the scheme and case studies of Young Offenders work. |
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| 14:05 | The YJB and the Youth Justice System - Looking Ahead Frances Done, Chair, Youth Justice Board (YJB) Frances Done will review the key themes of the Youth Crime Action Plan in the context of the experience of the Core Cities; highlighting the challenges and importance of integrating the Children’s Trusts and Criminal Justice agendas and looking forward to some major developments on the horizon.
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| 14:30 | Youth Action and Other Positive Activities to Help Young People Steer Clear of Crime Joyce Moseley OBE, Chief Executive, Catch22 This presentation will examine the evidence base which makes it clear that reinforcing positive behaviour helps to mitigate the factors in young peoples’ lives that may expose them to the risk of offending. Joyce will illustrate this with examples of work delivered in partnership with Catch 22’s corporate sponsors in and around shopping centres, including some innovative work with the Victoria Shopping Centre in Nottingham.
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| 15:30 | Workshop Sessions 1- 4 |
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| Workshop 1: How do we Improve Public Confidence in the Effectiveness of Youth Crime Services Jim Hopkinson, Head, Leeds Youth Offending Service Claire Forbes, Director of Communications, Youth Justice Board (YJB) YOTs, LCJBs, CDRPs and others have targets to improve public confidence in the criminal justice system and the effectiveness of community safety initiatives. However, by most measures the public and media know very little of the detailed work that YOTs and their partners undertake to reduce youth crime. How should YOTs invest resources and engage with a strategy to promote public confidence?
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| Workshop 2: Local Approach to Reparation Christopher Hickin, Remedi Manager and Marilyn Bradley, Reparation Co-ordinator (Remedi), Sheffield Youth Offending Service Sheffield Youth Offending Service has been highly proactive over the last 2 years in developing community reparation in the city, establishing a wide range of diverse placements across the area. It remains a key area of work for the service in meeting public confidence targets and restorative justice. The workshop will aim to cover how Sheffield YOT work in communities and what they view is good reparation, highlighting case studies of successful reparation placements and how to promote reparation effectively.
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| Workshop 3: Grass Roots Approach to Gangs Mohammed Yaseen, Area Manager, Neil Parnell, YIP Manager and Morris Samuels, Project Manager Unity, Catch22 The session will look at the nature and extent of gangs and crime in Nottingham, and how Catch22 are working to tackle these issues. Focusing on education, training and employment, delegates will have the opportunity to discuss the issues and obstacles surrounding this topic and work together to share good practice and ways forward. |
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| Workshop 4: Working with Children Who Present with Harmful Sexual Behaviours Tracey Johnson, Assistant Head, Birmingham Youth Offending Service Sara Delaney, Team Manager Birmingham Sexually Harmful Behaviour Team (SHB Team) This workshop will use case studies to explore the contribution of the Birmingham SHB Team to the effective prevention, engagement and management of children who display sexually abusive behaviour. |
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| 16:30 | Workshop Sessions 5- 7 |
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| Workshop 5: Tackling Youth Crime and Anti Social Behaviour at Neighbourhood Level – Whose Responsibility? Aileen Shepherd, Head, Liverpool Youth Offending Service This workshop will focus on how in one area of Liverpool we have tried to harness the range of services and community resources from police to the voluntary sector to address crime and anti social behaviour at a local level. It will explore how agencies have attempted to manage the tensions between universal and specialist provision, diversion, enforcement and community engagement in order to provide a coherent and effective approach. |
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| Workshop 6: Vehicle Offenders ‘Rite Off ‘ – Bristol Tony Gibbs, Police Constable, Case Management, Andy Smith, Team Manager, Case Management and Jo Essex, Practitioner, Case Management Team, Bristol Youth Offending Team This workshop will present a DVD titled ‘Rite Off’ made by Bristol YOT in partnership with Bristol City Council, Avon Fire and Rescue, Avon and Somerset Police and produced by a local film company Street Scenes. The DVD is divided into 3 separate short films, with worker guidance notes to accompany each one. The idea of the DVD is to try and provide some level of intervention on the scaled approach, with 3 different films covering prevention/low risk, victim awareness and custody/high risk. |
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| Workshop 7: Breaking The Intergenerational Cycle; Early Intervention Work in Nottingham Katy Ball, Early Intervention Programme Manager and Paul Martin, Family Intervention Project Manager, Nottingham City Council The workshop will provide an overview of the developing Early Intervention Programme being implemented across Nottingham City focusing on breaking difficult intergenerational cycles, including a specific focus on pilot work with the families of adult offenders to reduce the impact upon children. There will also be a facilitated discussion with delegates to explore national and local next steps that could be undertaken around the question: ‘Young offenders as parents of the next generation; what system change is needed to increase responsibility and change the cycle?’ |
Wednesday 18 March 2009
| 09:00 | Introduction to Day Two Mark Easton, Conference Facilitator, Home Editor, BBC News |
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| 09:10 | Youth Offending Teams and Children’s Trusts Ian Curryer, Acting Corporate Director of Children’s Services, Nottingham City Council This presentation will outline the importance of integrating Youth Offending Teams into Children’s Services, the need for governance arrangements with Criminal Justice agencies and the need to focus on achievement in relation to education and safeguarding regarding young people at risk.
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| 09:30 | Risk Management and Post Incident Co-operation Bob Dubar, Sergeant, Newham Youth Strategy Team, Metropolitan Police Service Newham has one of the highest number of youth crimes and most serious violence in the country. It also has one of the highest proportion of young people, yet in 2008 it had no youth murders (whilst 28 were committed in other parts of London). However, in previous years Newham had a significant number of youth murders, the most in the Metropolitan Police. This presentation identifies their approach and why Newham feel they have managed the risk effectively. Sadly, this year a 15 year old was killed and the issues and challenges for the partnership were significant, particularly around care, gang issues, reprisals and witness intimidation. This presentation shows how Newham’s approach to youth violence helped to mitigate the risk, resolve the issues and enhance the effectiveness of the partnership.
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| 10:00 | Youth Crime in Nottingham – Is It Falling? Professor Mike Hough, Director, Institute for Criminal Policy and Research (ICPR), Kings College, London This presentation will examine trends in youth crime and youth justice in Nottingham and the factors that may underlie these trends.
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| 10:30 | Ministerial Question Time Beverley Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families, Department for Children, Schools and Families This presentation will be followed by a Ministerial discussion with a panel of young people from Nottingham, facilitated by Mark Easton. |
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| 11:20 | Reluctant Gangsters: The Changing Face of Youth Crime John Pitts, Vauxhall Professor of Socio-legal Studies, University of Bedfordshire John Pitts will present the findings of his research, undertaken between 2005 and 2008 into violent youth gangs in three London boroughs, and discuss the implications for policy and practice in gang-affected neighbourhoods.
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| 11:50 | The Independent Chair Maggie Blyth, Independent Chair, Nottingham Youth Offending Team Board This session will consider the roles and responsibilities in relation to an independent chair and consider the benefits and challenges for other youth justice services.
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| 12:10 | Child Custody: Should Local Authorities Pay? Penelope Gibbs, Director, Prison Reform Trust ‘Criminal Damage’ Programme Child custody accounts for two thirds of YJB expenditure and costs £306 million a year, which is met nationally. Penelope Gibbs will analyse where the money goes and the pros and cons of whether Local Authorities should hold the budgets for child imprisonment. |
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| 12:30 | Questions and Answers to the Panel of Speakers Facilitated by Mark Easton, Conference Facilitator, Home Editor, BBC News |
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| 12:45 | Conference Review Mark Easton, Conference Facilitator, Home Editor, BBC News |
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This event is being organized by CJS Event Solutions on behalf of Nottingham City Council, CDP, Police and Probation Service. |
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