Still Not Safe: The Public Health Response to Youth Violence Report – Children’s Commissioner (February 2021)
Summary:
Access to the Children’s Commissioner report still not safe: the public health response to youth violence.
Description:
The Children’s Commissioner have published still not safe: the public health response to youth violence report (2021).
The report set out to assess how effectively existing infrastructure within local authorities was being used to deliver a public health approach to prevent gang involvement and youth violence. The report contains data ahead of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The report suggests that few Local Authorities were using public health infrastructure effectively to address the issue of gang-involvement and youth violence and bring intervention upstream to prevent future harm.