Seminars
SR1 Positive Activities for Young People

This seminar will be run by the National Youth Agency which works with organisations and services to improve the life chances of young people and also works directly with young people themselves to develop their voice and influence in shaping policy and securing social justice. The seminar will explore a range of positive activities for young people and will also cover some aspects of youth engagement.

The session will be delivered by Peta Halls, Development Officer for Community Safety and Youth Justice at The National Youth Agency.
SR2 Motivating partners

Have you ever felt frustration when people just don't seem to get excited with you or as excited as you about the project? Have you ever wondered just why it is that you can speak "clearly" about something but people still don't seem to understand? Do you feel challenged when you want to inspire a partner, but they just don't get it like you do?

To really develop in the modern age, we need to work more in partnerships. This seminar will shed light on that challenge and be hugely beneficial, showing you exactly how to get partners to be on the same wavelength as you with powerful ideas.

This seminar is presented by Conference MC Ben Kench, "The Can Can Man".
SR3 Positively Charged – tackling gangs through positive diversion

Safer Merton were Tilley Award finalists for their groundbreaking work on tackling gangs through a combination of intelligence gathering and targeted positive intervention. The success was based around using detached workers, teachers, police and youth justice workers to build up a picture of gang activity, including profiling over 500 young people known to be involved with gangs. These were then sifted into levels of involvement and detached youth workers were used to engage and consult with them to discover their needs and wishes. Third sector organisations were commissioned to lead on creative projects involving the dozen or so leaders of each gang. Those on the periphery were engaged through schools projects and a football programme with Fulham FC. Eventually a delegation of gang members created a project pack to guide younger schoolchildren away from gang activity and to demonstrate the reality of life on the streets. This was distributed to every secondary school child of relevant age in Merton. A range of enforcement activity also operated simultaneously. This seminar will provide delegates with an understanding of how a joined up approach across the partnership using the third sector and having faith in young people results in a reduction in crime and ASB without further congesting the youth justice system.

The session will be delivered by Chris Williams, Strategic Partnerships Officer at the London Borough of Merton.
SR4 A study into ASB and crime suffered by adults with learning difficulties and how the results can help us to help vulnerable sectors of our communities

This seminar will focus on a study of ASB and crime suffered by adults with learning disabilities which identified the factors that increase both the actual and perceived risk of such offences being perpetrated. It will explain the recommendations of preventative actions that emerged from the study and how community guardians can both facilitate reports and community intelligence and minimise the risk of an adult with learning difficulties from suffering anti-social behavior.

The seminar will be led by Stephanie Sutton, Community Safety Co-ordinator for New Forest District Council
SR5 Public Transport Crime and Disorder and the TravelSafe Partnership

This seminar, led by Dr Julian Westwood from Merseytravel and Sgt Wendy Sudworth, will provide an introduction to the successful work of TravelSafe. Anti-social behavior associated with public transport can be a neglected area of community safety but there is a close correlation between deprivation and some crime types meaning that those communities most dependent on public transport are isolated by the highest levels of crime. The seminar will cover how TravelSafe functions as a voluntary CDRP, how to bring partners together, what has been found by intelligence gathering and how an intelligence system has been used to inform multi-agency tasking. It will also cover the toolkit of responses that have been developed to problem profiles and some of the results that have been achieved. Delegates will be invited to use some of their free time on the first day at the conference to visit a live operation at Queen’s Square Bus Station less than five minutes walk from the conference venue. The operation will reflect much of what has been presented and representatives of the partners will be available for questions.
SR6 Engaged Communities are stronger communities

This seminar addresses the proposition that much of modern society turns individuals into isolated consumers - but engaging individuals through their "communities of interest" results in inclusion, cohesion, health, wealth and wellbeing. What’s more, there is evidence to back it up.

This seminar will provide a voluntary and community sector perspective on community engagement. The speaker, Alan Lewis, is the Chief Executive of Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services.
SR7 Partnership Support Programme - enhancing partnership performance

Helen Kynaston plus representatives from Peterborough CDRP (to be identified) Examining the work that the Police and Partnership Standards Unit of the Home Office has done with partnerships, the different models of intervention, view from the Partnerships and the link with improved performance (Crime Pattern Analysis Team).
SR8 Making National Standards work

Led by Kathy Robinson, this seminar run by the Police and Partnership Standards Unit (PPSU) of the Home Office looks at the different approaches to National Standards implementation and what partnerships and practitioners can learn from each about best practice.

Programme Quick Links
Day One - Wednesday 4th June | Day Two - Thursday 5th June