The weekend's stabbings in Wembley Park and Neasden, as well as the death in Croydon, were very much on our minds last night at the Brent and Harrow hustings for the Green Party candidate for the GLA constituency.
The London Assembly Police and Crime Committee chaired by Green Assembly Member Caroline Russell, has launched an investigation into preventing violence and protecting young people. It will consider the root causes of violence affecting young people in London and what the Mayor and Metropolitan Police are doing to prevent violence in communities.
You can submit your own evidence to the investigation. Details from the GLA below.
How to respond
The deadline for submission is Friday 13 October 2023.
The Committee would like to invite anyone with knowledge or experience of violence affecting young people to submit views and information to the investigation, including those working to protect young people and prevent violence, giving you the opportunity to inform the Committee’s work and influence its recommendations. Therefore, this call for evidence is open to all who would like to respond.
1. What are the root causes of violence affecting young people in London?
2. What role do non-policing solutions, including projects run by youth services, community organisations and charities, play in preventing violence and protecting young people in London? How do these projects help to reduce violence affecting young people?
3. What more should schools and education providers be doing to protect children and young people at risk of violence in London?
4. What impact has London’s Violence Reduction Unit had on reducing and preventing violence since it was established in 2019?
5. How well does the Met work with partner organisations to prevent and reduce violence affecting young people? What more should it be doing?
6. What actions should the Mayor be taking to build trust and confidence among young people and protect communities that are most impacted by violence?
7. What action should be taken to engage young Londoners in initiatives to protect and support young people affected by violence?
Please send evidence by email to: scrutiny@london.gov.uk
https://www.london.gov.uk/media/102723/download
What we will do with your responses
The responses to this Call for Evidence will be used to inform the Committee’s discussion with invited stakeholders at its meetings in September and October 2023 and any subsequent recommendations. These are open meetings which will be held in City Hall, and anyone is welcome to attend as an audience member to watch the discussions. They will also be broadcast online.
Following the investigation, the Committee may produce an output in the form of a published letter or report. Information and/or quotations from submissions to this call for evidence may be used in this output, and we will ensure we cite you. We generally inform those who have submitted evidence about the outcome of the investigation in the form of link to a report or output when it is published.
