Beyond the Leisure Centre: How to make the case for active wellbeing investment
This special report from LocalGov and Alliance Leisure makes the case for repositioning council leisure provision as prevention infrastructure.
Chesterfield council welcomes record drugs bust
26/02/2024 Dozens of gang members have been jailed for more than 120 years after a drugs bust in Chesterfield succeeded in disrupting nine county lines gangs. |
Alarming figures reveal 300% increase in ‘cuckooing’
19/05/2023 Figures collected from local authorities across London have revealed a 300% increase in the number of ‘cuckooing’ cases across the capital. |
Eight more regions to become Project ADDER Accelerator sites
28/07/2021 Eight more local authorities will become Project ADDER Accelerator sites to help tackle drug misuse and crack-down on drug-related crime. |
Girls increasingly becoming victims of county lines drug gangs, councils warn
09/07/2021 County lines drug gangs are increasingly targeting girls and young women, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. |
Online toolkit available for tackling youth violence
28/06/2021 Local authorities now have access to an online toolkit which will help them determine what activities are best for preventing children becoming involved in violence. |
Government announces £35.5m to tackle violence at local level
09/02/2021 Local communities are set to benefit from a multi-million-pound funding boost to help support measures tackling serious violence. |
Report calls for a joined up public health approach to gangs
08/02/2021 Local authorities are failing to tackle the key drivers for youth violence in their areas, the Children's Commissioner has warned in a new report. |
'Data desert' on vulnerable children and county lines, report warns
03/12/2020 Local authorities and police forces are failing to identify the number of vulnerable children being exploited by criminal gangs, a new report has warned. |
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Charity warns of increase in gang activity post-lockdown
03/06/2020 Criminal gangs are using new ways of exploiting children in the wake of coronavirus, a new report has warned. |
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Youth services bearing brunt of 'drastic' cuts finds report
03/03/2020 Youth services have a vital role to play in tackling crime, gang culture and loneliness, a charity has argued today. |
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Council offers pioneering family therapy to reduce gang crime
31/01/2020 Redbridge Council has become the first in the UK to deliver a ground-breaking family therapy service for young people at risk of joining gangs. |
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Over 4,000 young people ‘exploited’ by County Lines gangs
20/09/2019 Figures released by the Mayor of London’s office have revealed that there are more than 4,000 young people involved in County Lines operating out of London. |
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Watchdog warns of rapid rise in serious and organised crime
28/06/2019 An official report shows more investment is needed in local services to protect young people from the lure of gangs, council leaders have warned. |
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Council fined for leak of its gang database
05/04/2019 The London Borough of Newham has been fined £145,000 by the data watchdog for revealing personal information on more than 200 people who were on a police database. |
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‘County Lines’ major driver behind rise in slavery reporting
20/03/2019 The number of potential victims of trafficking and modern slavery reported to the authorities has risen by more than 80% in two years, new data reveals. |
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Councils ‘failing’ children exploited by gangs, report reveals
28/02/2019 The same mistakes that led to child sexual exploitation failings are being repeated with gangs, the children’s commissioner has warned. |
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Whitehall announces nearly £10m fund to tackle gang culture
25/02/2019 Communities across England are to receive a share of a £9.5m fund aimed at helping families who are vulnerable to the effects of knife crime and gang culture, the communities secretary has announced. |
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Front-line workers ‘must get better’ at tackling child exploitation by drug gangs
30/01/2019 Front-line professionals ‘must get better’ at spotting signs that children are being exploited, a children’s charity has said in response to an annual assessment of county lines drug networks. |
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Excluded schoolchildren at risk of violence and criminal exploitation
30/10/2018 Rising numbers of children being excluded from school are at risk of becoming involved in gangs and knife crime, charity leaders and MPs have warned. |
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Whitehall announces £5m fund to fight knife crime
22/10/2018 Local authorities are being given the opportunity to bid for funding to tackle youth and gang crime in high-risk areas. |
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Whitehall announces £2m unit to protect vulnerable children from gangs
29/08/2018 A national response unit designed to offer local authorities tailored support to help children at risk of exploitation by criminal gangs is due to be launched next year. |
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Council gang prevention programme gets £800,000 boost
07/06/2018 Waltham Forest Council has allocated an additional £806,000 of funding over four years in order to ‘reshape’ its gang prevention programme. |
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Council and police secure landmark group gang injunction
24/08/2017 The largest ever group gang injunction has been secured by Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Police against 18 men. |
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Tackling gang culture
20/07/2017 Cllr. Zaffar Van Kalwala explains how local communities can work together to help tackle gangs. |
