PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN THE CURE

‘Prevention is better than cure’ we say, when we are thinking about diseases. It’s better to get the population vaccinated against measles than to have to treat people who fall ill.

RESTORE OUR YOUTH PROVISION

The last ten years of austerity have made policing much more difficult than it should be.  This is not just because we have lost 20,000 police officers.

LAUNCH OF PROJECT 0114

Project 0114 – the partnership project set up with Home Office funding through Dr Alan Billings, South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner focussed on tackling child criminal exploitation and associated knife and gun crime across the city is underway.

LINKS BETWEEN POVERTY AND CRIME

Sometimes people ask me whether there is a link between poverty and crime. When they do, my first thoughts turn to my own childhood. I grew up in a very deprived part of an East Midlands industrial town.

CHILD CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION

At the start of a new financial year, I realise that five years ago this summer the Jay Report was published and CSE - child sexual exploitation - entered our consciousness and our vocabulary.

CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER ANNUAL STUDY OF CHILDHOOD VULNERABILITY

"The Children’s Commissioner has drawn national attention to the growing issue of child criminal exploitation (CCE) and has noted similarities with child sexual exploitation (CSE).

FUNDING AWARDED FROM THE HOME OFFICE EARLY INTERVENTION FUND

South Yorkshire is to receive £1,245,680 from the Home Office Early Intervention Fund for two projects to target young people at risk of becoming involved in crime.

THE CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN

We may soon find ourselves talking about the criminal grooming of children with the same concern that we had over their sexual grooming. We are very familiar with the latter.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

The history of our country and slavery is mixed. On the one hand, from the sixteenth century, we were one of the great slave nations, exchanging our manufactures for captive Africans and conveying them to slave plantations in the Americas and Caribbean.