Ending gang and youth violence: cross-government report

Following the disorder in August across cities in England, the Prime Minister asked the Home Secretary to lead a review, alongside the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, into the growing problem of gangs and gang violence.

The report looks into the scale of the problem of gang and youth violence, analyses its causes, and identifies 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, sets 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

A summary of the report and a more detailed version including further evidence and good practice case studies are available below.

Date: Tue Nov 01 16:04:33 GMT 2011

• Ending gang and youth violence - summary (PDF file - 1mb - Warning: large file)

  Summary of the review into the growing problem of gangs and gang violence.

• Ending gang and youth violence - detailed report (PDF file - 3mb - Warning: large file)

  Detailed report including further evidence and good practice case studies following the review into the growing problem of gangs and gang violence.

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