Transcript Warwick Road, Cliftonville

Transforming joint ‘street level’ services to better
identify and respond to risks and vulnerabilities
Mark Pearson, Margate Task Force, Inspector (Police)
Margate Task Force - 30 Staff
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Kent County Council (KCC) Community Wardens
KCC Social Services (Children)
KCC Trading Standards
KCC Public Health
Police
Kent Fire & Rescue Service (KFRS)
Kent Probation Service (KPS)
Job Centre Plus and Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) Fraud
Thanet District Council (TDC) Housing
NHS – GP, Health Trainers, Health Visitor, Community Psychiatric Nurse
Family Intervention Workers (Troubled Families)
Kent Council for Addiction ( KCA & Turning Point)
TDC Enforcement Services & Community Safety
Global Generation – Pipeline, Community Action Teams, Community Pastors
United Kingdom Border Agency – Home Office Enforcement
CXK (16-18 yo NEETS)
Thanet Community Networks
Oasis – Domestic Abuse
County Police Gangs Specialist - Partnerships
Core Strategic Objectives
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Achieve Public Service Transformation
Drive the localism agenda
Improve - effectiveness, cost savings and efficiencies
Increase levels of visible ‘front-end’ joint working
Better identify and respond to risks and vulnerabilities
Radically enhance information sharing:  Reducing levels of bureaucracy
 Improving timeliness
 Generating increased positive outcomes for all agencies
• Improve the lives and well-being of all people
Operational Objectives (Police)
To jointly: • Tackle Drugs (Heroin, Crack Cocaine, Pervitin, MDMA) and
Alcohol Related Violent Crime (in dwelling and public)
• Identify and reduce Sexual Exploitation (Young Children),
Human Trafficking and Bonded Service
• Improve effectiveness specific to Intra-European Offenders
and other Foreign Nationals
• Improve ‘Team Locality’ robust interventions
Key Wards
Mental Health ‘Heat Map’ (based on 1 local Surgery’s data)
Ambulance Pick-Ups (1 year period)
Almost 600 Ambulance Pick-Ups (only 4 specific categories): Assault
Overdose & Poisoning
Mental Health – Suicide Attempt
Stab/Shot/Penetrative Trauma (incl. Arm and Hand Stabbing)
Slovak & Czech Roma – why Margate?
CSE – Migrant Vulnerability
• Syphilis and Gonorrhea hotspots
• Late pregnancy presentation Sexually Transmitted Diseases
(STDs)
• Limited access to food – food banks
• Poor education and literacy (upon entry into UK)
• Impact of organised crime – Trafficking and Child Sexual
Exploitation (CSE)
• Cultural attitudes towards young girls
• Domestic Abuse (DA) – Margate Central (1) and Cliftonville
West (3) in county. Challenge of encouraging reporting of DA
• CRB (DBS) Checks – do not include ‘County of Origin’
Dentistry – Eastern Europeans
Attendance of mobile dentist, 2 hours, 30th Sept 2013.
(Cliftonville West – 60 persons): • 6 prescriptions issued for the first 10 customers ( max
prescriptions that mobile unit can carry)
• Serious oral hygiene issues identified in all age groups
• Very well attended ( given the short stay)
• Appointments were given, but to attend clinics in Broadstairs
and Newington – problem of accessibility
• Language difficulties, interpreter on site, but dealing with
Sexual Health matters as a priority
Gangs’ Co-operative
• Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Orientals, local white English –
Cannabis Cultivation
• Czechs, Slovaks, Czech Roma, Slovak Roma, local white English,
Local Afro-Caribbeans, London Afro-Caribbeans/Somalis –
supply and distribution Heroin, Crack Cocaine,
Amphetamines, Pervitin and MDMA
• Local and London Borough Polish – organised Shoplifting
• Pakistanis and Czech/Slovak Roma – Handling Stolen Goods
from drug generated crime and ‘Sham Marriages’
• London Afro-Caribbeans/Somalis and London/Local white
English – transportation of Class A Drugs into Thanet from
London
• Organised Gangs – Child Safeguarding issues
Streetweek - Process
Structured action spanning a 3 week period
Week 1
 Resident Questionnaire and active engagement
Week 2
 Implement ‘fast track’ action – warrants, etc.
Week 3
 Lay foundation for effective problem solving and achieving
sustainable outcomes
UKC Forensic Psychologists
Czech and Slovak cohorts (primarily Roma)
Exploratory analysis by MSc students
• The potential importance of ‘street level’ agency presence to:
 Increasing positive perceptions about being fair in addressing
peoples rights
 Improving willingness to report and go to authorities
 Increasing feelings of safety in the neighbourhood
• Reducing individuals’ criminality, the importance of:
 Health
 Education & Employment
 Church
 Family
Neighbourhood Responsibility Panel
A joint dynamic ‘One Stop’ assessment
achieving a synergy between
Social Justice and Community Justice
Neighbourhood Responsibility Panel
Client responses
• “I can get drugs anytime, any place, anywhere, anything!”
• 6 Eastern European (EE) clients. 1 weeks Heroin consumption £2,800
• All EE clients incurring costs for drug support treatment, prescribed
Methadone; few had visible source of income
• EE client 5 months pregnant – in UK 5 months – on Methadone and under
Drug Support Treatment
• Organised Gang members – operating in groups of three – armed with list
of drug abusers – knocking on their doors persistently and ‘sofa surfing’
to enhance drug dealing capacity and reduce the risk of detection
• Eastern Europeans working collaboratively with Afro-Caribbean's/Somalis
from London – drug dealing, organised theft and prostitution
• Drug Dealers on £1200 a day using taxis
• “This place is worse than London!”
Positive Experience
• Information sharing – reaping the benefits of a slick ‘fast track’
process – proving particularly effective with Child Sexual Exploitation
• Knowledge and education hub – now seen as the ‘expert’ joint
problem solvers
• Standard bearers – recognised as ‘leading’ on setting standards
• Professionalising joint working – significantly enhancing
‘professionalised’ integrated services
• Dynamic engagement – the profound impact of joint face to face’
interaction (3,500 ‘Your Home, Your Health’ surveys, plus over 1,000
referrals to 46 different entities)
• Community Champions – firmly embedded in local communities’
psyche – epitomised as “we are proud of OUR Task Force”
• Resonant Leadership – handpicked team – all having a shared
purpose, shared vision, social/emotional intelligence and
compassion
Positive Activity
• Member of European Parliament (MEP) – potentially accessing
European Funding, sharing best practice and improving information
sharing
• Higher risk offenders – preventing 36 from residing in our most
deprived areas
• Child Sexual Exploitation – effectively identifying and controlling
risks to vulnerable young people – Level 1>Level 1.5 Sandwich>Level
2 NIM
• Influencing the National Agenda – presentation at Windsor Castle
to national policy makers, plus close liaison with Centre for Social
Justice (CSJ) and Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI)
• Reform Think Tank – national ‘Integrated Services’ best practice
• Education Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee – provided positive
feedback on the risks and vulnerabilities to Looked After Children
(LAC)
• Ending Gang & Youth Violence (EGYV)– Providing enhanced support
to gang victims, plus South East Confederation and Registered
Children's Homes – strengthening joint Level 1 and 2 working
Positive Comments
The town’s Task Force should be copied across the European
Union Marta Andreasen MEP
The Margate Task Force delivers multi-agency solutions for
deprivation in Thanet, and ensures the dissemination of good
practice across the county
Ann Barnes Policing and Crime Commissioner, Kent
Since the co-location of the Task Force on the 4th Floor of Thanet
District Council, we have seen a massive improvement in joined
up working. As an elected member I am especially pleased with
the huge difference this co-operative working has made to the
well being of our community and the transformation of local
services
Cllr Iris Johnston (Leader of Thanet District Council)
MTF Contacts
• Jessica Bailey
• Tel. 01843 577762
• Email. [email protected]
• Mark Pearson
• Mob. 07989 992052
• Email. [email protected]
• Margate Task Force address
• 4th Floor Offices, Thanet District Council, Cecil Street, Margate, Kent CT9
1XZ
• Awards
 Kent Community Safety Award 2013. Excellence in Partnership &
Innovation
 National Collaboration Award 2012. Excellence in Joint Working
 NHS Alliance Acorn National Award 2013. Effective Joint Working (Runner
Up)
 Department of Health. National Collaboration Award 2014