VE Day: Council duties under the Armed Forces Covenant
As we mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Geoff Wild, Legal & Governance Consultant, looks at the duties of councils under the Armed Forces Covenant.
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. |
