Investment Process

1
Hate Crime Symposium Hate Crime Policy
Practice 11th September Hendon Campus,
Middlesex University
Theo Gavrielides, CEO Anthony Salla, Hate
Crime Policy Officer
2
Race on the Agenda

• Social policy think-tank set up in April 1984
  which works with Londons Black, Asian and
  minority ethnic (BAME) communities and others
  interested in race equality, towards achieving
  social justice by the elimination of
  discrimination and promotion of human rights,
  diversity and equality of opportunity.
• We achieve these aims by informing Londons
  strategic decision-makers about the issues
  affecting the BAME third sector and the
  communities it serves and by making government
  policy more accessible to Londons BAME
  organisations
• Current policy priorities Crime Anti-social
  behaviour, Equalities Human Rights, Community
  Cohesion, Health Social Services and Regional
  Government.

3
Restoring Relations Project (RRP)

• A London-wide cooperative initiative, which aims
  to help reduce hate crime and its
• impact through the use of restorative justice and
  the encouragement of multi-agency
• partnerships between the Third Sector and crime
  reduction agencies.
• Aims
• Reduce hate crime in London boroughs by
  encouraging stakeholders to concentrate
• resources on types of crime, types of victims and
  perpetrators and geographical
• areas
• Produce models for short-term conflict resolution
  and long-term prevention
• Forge and maintain multi-agency partnerships
  between Third Sector organisations and statutory
  bodies
• Methodology
• Phase 1 Desk Research (June 2006 June 2007)
• Phase 2 Fieldwork (June 2007- 2008(
• Phase 3 Dissemination and implementation (2008
  ongoing)
• Youth Advisory Group acting as a scrutiny panel

4
KEY FINDINGS Gaps Challenges

• Definitional ambiguity research/policy/legislatio
  n/implementation.
• Reporting of hate crime
• Nature of hate crime in London
• Hate crime as a multi-dimensional issue
• Working in Silos
• An effective response from the CJS for lesser
  incidents is currently absent.

5
MAIN FINDINGS Recommendations

• Prevention the key to combating hate crime
• Supporting community based Restorative Justice
  programmes
• Building, maintaining and sourcing cross-sector
  multi-agency partnerships

6
ROTA Moving forward together

• Transformative Justice Forum (Increase
  collaboration between the Third sector
  statutory bodies and formulate strategies to
  share best practice).
• Develop and inform policy about the needs of
  groups that suffer high victimisation levels
• Increase awareness of CJS and support services
  available to victims
• Training and networking

7
Topics for discussion

• Best practice examples multi-agency work
• RJ, prevention and young people
• Policy and legislative improvements for moving
  forward

8
Contact Details

• Race on the Agenda
• Unit 101, Cremer Business Centre,
• 37 Cremer Street
• London E2 8HD
• 020 77291310
• CEO theo_at_rota.org.uk
• Policy Officer anthony_at_rota.org.uk