The value of leisure and culture to Enfield

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The value of leisure and culture to Enfield
Crime and Disorder Partnership

• 9th March 2004
• Nikki Enoch,
• Mike Collins Simon Parkinson

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Value of Leisure and Cultural ServicesProject
Brief

• Commissioned October 2003 to
• Summarise available national research
• Apply research locally
• Identify priorities and partnerships with the ESP
  thematic groups
• Funded by Neighbourhood Renewal

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Introduction to the Team

• Mike Collins
• Internationally recognised researcher on leisure
  and social exclusion
• Simon Parkinson
• Chair of the Leisure and Cultural Services Group
  with local knowledge and contacts
• Me
• Director of Vaga Associates with 15 years
  experience of sport leisure at local, regional
  and national levels

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Presentation

• Value of leisure and culture
• Priorities of the Leisure and Cultural Services
  Group
• Focus on youth crime
• Information sources
• Your views

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The Value of Leisure Culture
Putting Enfield First
Health well being

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Educational attainment employment
Crime diversion
Leisure Culture
Personal development community building
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Physical ActivityHealth Benefits
Require 5 x 30 minutes every week
Home, work hobbies
Sport exercise
Government Target (DCMS 2002) 70 population
active by 2020 Current level 32 and static!
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Increasing Prevalence of Obesity
N.A.O. 2001
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Prevalence of CHD Risk factors
Economic Cost of CHD 7.06b annually
Source Liu, Maniadakis, Gray Raynor 2002
Source Joint Healthy Survey Study 1999
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Enfield Residents

• Estimates extrapolated from national government
  studies
• Applied to Enfield on a pro rota basis
• Enfield residents
• 37 are sedentary 101,200
• 22.5 are obese 61,500
• Savings from 10 increase in activity
• 10 17,200 residents
• 311 lives
• 10.5m
• 1.9m NHS
• 4.3m loss of earnings
• 4.3m premature mortality
• Source DCMS 2002 Game Plan Implementing the
  Governments Strategy for Sport

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Best Start in LifeYoung Person Centred
Putting Enfield First
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Enfield Young PeopleAttitudes to Sport
Putting Enfield First
Source Enfield Year 6 9 Sports Survey 2003
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Enfield Young People Participation Levels
Putting Enfield First
Source Enfield Year 6 9 Sports Survey 2003
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Enfield Citizens Views

• Most important reasons
• for play
• Major concerns about
• Unsupervised play
• Most urgent priorities
• from community safety audit

• 56 Physical health development
• 54 Development of social skills
• 54 Safer environment for children
• 40 Reduction in youth crime
• 80 Meeting strangers
• 52 Victim of crime
• 63 Reducing violent crime
• 51 Dealing with antisocial behaviour
• 48 Reducing town centre/street crime
• 46 Encouraging young people from crime

Source Citizens Panel Surveys 2001 2003
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Value of Leisure and Cultural ServicesCONCLUSIONS

• Health benefits proven and known
• Young people need it and enjoy it
• Some young people dont get it
• Drop out in teenage years
• Citizens recognise its value for reducing youth
  crime

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Leisure Culture PartnershipEmerging Priorities

• Overall Lead
• Increase the provision of accessible and
  affordable youth activities, including new and
  better ways to divert young people away from
  crime and anti-social behaviour, and involve
  young people in the design and delivery of
  activities
• Priority Actions for Commissioning Plan
• Health improvement
• Crime diversionary activities for young people
• Raise educational attainment
• Build capacity and organisational development

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• Youth Crime

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Reducing Youth CrimeHigh Costs

• Facts
• 70 of youth crime committed by 7- 8 youths
• Huge cost of incarceration
• 76 re-offend within two years
• 2,300 savings from preventing a single youth
  crime (Cooper Lybrand 1994)
• 46 affected in C2DE groups by kids hanging
  about (res2003)
• 1.5m annually to deal with crime related damage
  in one street in Braunstone, Leics.

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Reducing Youth CrimeEnfield Crime Disorder
Strategy

• Street crime
• 42 victims are males under 17 years
• 54 suspects are males under 20 years
• Approach for safer children and young people
• Youth diversion provision of activities
• Restorative justice encourage offenders to
  consider the consequences
• Actions (six in total)
• Increase the number of projects for vulnerable
  young people to divert them from entering
  criminal justice

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Reducing Youth CrimeReaching those most at Risk

• Research carried between1995 and 2000 revealed
  that
• Young people at risk of offending lacked
  variety in their leisure experiences...They
  represent a minority group with extremely
  impoverished leisure (McCormack 2000)
• Examples Scott and Jason life histories
• Six changes in care situation 10 -16 years
• Four geographic moves
• No contact with father
• Sports activities stopped when entering care
• Good at sports, enjoyed activity

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Reducing Youth CrimeReaching those most at Risk

• Lessons
• Life history showed need to support leisure in
  childhood
• Leisure patterns of young offenders demonstrated
  very low levels of sports participation
• Financial accessibility was a key constraint
• Low self confidence peer pressure contributed
  to low participation
• Lack adult encouragement for constructive leisure
  activity and sport
• Knowledge of leisure opportunity was very low

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Reducing Youth CrimeLevels of Intervention
Source McCormack 20002
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Reducing Youth CrimeStreet Sport Stoke on Trent

• USING RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
  AS AN APPROACH TO PROMOTING HARMONY IN
  COMMUNITIES

• Features
• High unemployment
• Low prosperity
• Areas of poor housing
• Lone parent families
• Lack of leisure facilities for young people
• Raised level of concern about crime
• Concern about young people hanging about on
  streets

• Approach
• Reconnaissance process
• Outreach provision
• Regular sessions
• Community events
• Sports courts

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Reducing Youth CrimeStreet Sport Stoke on Trent

• Impact
• Meeting the needs of young people
• Supporting young people through sport
• Reducing friction between young people and
  older residents
• Demonstrates the potential for sport to be an
  effective primary level intervention as both a
  diversion and education for young people

The Street Sport team helped us to form a
football team, we have now played for two seasons
and are a strong team on and off the field,.we
needed their help to get motivated (Stanfields,
interview 1999).
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Reducing Youth Crime Positive Futures

• A national sports based social inclusion
  programme
• First annual report
• 67 projects 35,000 young people
• 72 male 28 female
• 20 non white
• 85 - meaningfully engaged
• 14,000 signs of progress
• Educational improvement
• Training
• Joining a club
• Social relationships
• Personal development
• 36-57 increased confidence by partners

Its been fantastic, my first proper chance to do
sport although Ive always been interested

• Krisham Singh
• Started by playing football
• Leaders award
• FA level one award
• First aid training
• Runs sessions

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Reducing Youth CrimeEmerging Practice in Enfield

• Magnet projects
• Homework Centres
• Black History Month
• Partnership working
• Young people
• Involvement
• Mentors role models

• Raynham Park
• Community engagement
• Young people involved in design development
• Genuine partnership
• Promising results

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Enfield Sport and Crime Reduction Group

• Membership
• EBC Sports Development
• Police youth and community
• Active communities
• Youth Service
• Connexions
• Youth Offending Team
• Others

• Making connexions
• Summer splash all year round
• Reaching those most at need
• Mapping what exists
• Inter-agency referral system
• Priorities
• After school activities
• Inter estate football
• Craig Park
• Young persons gym, Edmonton Leisure Centre

support and formal recognition
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Leisure and Cultural Partnership GroupProposals

• Craig park joint priority with Better Enfield
  Group
• United Estates add sports and physical activity
  dimension
• Evaluation sustainability improve
  understanding of local impact of diversionary
  schemes
• Black History Month a magnet with year round
  activities and themes

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Reducing Youth Crime Research Themes

• Diversion alone more harm than good?
• Very short term and unconnected
• Raise expectations and result in higher
  frustrations
• Unproven (what happens between times)
• Diversion plus hooking in building
  relationships
• Appeal factor
• Joined up
• Extended reach
• Broader range of activities
• Confidence and aspirations
• Connected to other services
• Individual Support structural change
• Personal mentors and programmes

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The value of leisure culture for health
Conclusions

• Overall
• Proven benefits
• Proven need
• Proven support

• Those Most at Risk
• Leisure deprivation
• Multiple issues
• Multiple approaches
• Long term costly
• Cheaper than crime!

Leisure Culture Part of the cause and part of
the solution!
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The value of leisure culture to Enfield
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Your views
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Leisure and Cultural Partnership Group

• Any further thoughts, evidence or contributions
  please
• contact us
• Tel [phone]
• nikki_at_vagaassociates.com
• Thank you