Policy paper

Ending gang and youth violence: cross-government report

Following the disorder in cities across in England in August 2011, a review into the growing problem of gangs and gang violence was established.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 1 November 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Ending gang and youth violence - summary

Ref: ISBN 9780101821124, Cm. 8211

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Ending gang and youth violence - detailed report

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Details

Lead by the Home Secretary (alongside the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions), the review looked into the scale of the problem of gang and youth violence, analysed its causes, and identified what can be done by government and other agencies to stop the violence and to turn around the lives of those involved.

The cross-government report, published on 1 November 2011, set out detailed plans to make this happen through:

• providing support to local areas to tackle the problem
• preventing young people becoming involved in violence in the first place, with a new emphasis on early intervention and prevention
• pathways out of violence and the gang culture for young people wanting to make a break with the past
• punishment and enforcement to suppress the violence of those refusing to exit violent lifestyles
• partnership-working to join up the way local areas respond to gang and other youth violence

Published 1 November 2011