Lambeth Gun Crime Programme: Phoenix Programme prevention strand Defining our function

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Lambeth Gun Crime Programme Phoenix
Programme (prevention strand)Defining our
function
In association with
Date Arial 14pt
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The Phoenix Programme The content of today's
presentation

• What is the Phoenix Programme?
• Why undertake this programme?
• What is aim of this programme?
• How will it achieve its aim?
• How have we achieved our progress to date?
• What were the blockages?
• What would we have done differently?
• Where do we see this programme in the future?
• Putting it into context!

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The Phoenix Programme What is it?

• Gun enabled crime prevention and reduction
  strategy
• Exclusively focussed towards local community
• Meet urgent needs of the local youth offending
  team
• Tailored towards addressing the needs of the
  individual young offender
• Maximises the collective efficacy by empowering
  voluntary and community sector projects
  therefore,
• local community now to engage with and tackle
  young offenders
• Strong, resilient and credible partnership
  between the police, local authority and community

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The Phoenix Programme What is it?
Phoenix Programme
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The Phoenix Programme Why undertake this
programme?

• Gun enabled crime continues to attract young
  people
• Stubborn resistance despite extensive campaigns
  and enforcement social factors very powerful!
• Facts
• Gun enabled crime in Lambeth 272
• Street robbery offences in Lambeth 2516
• But
• more than 20 murders in Lambeth since 2001 and,
• fear of gun crime and stigmatisation growing in
  the community

Figures sourced from MPS website and BCU
intelligence unit
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The Phoenix Programme Why undertake this
programme?

• Review commissioned by strategic leads
• Effectiveness dogged by mixed messages based on
  anecdote
• Crime levels worrying
• Excessive use of activity based programmes (a lot
  of passion but no substance)
• Little evidence of a partnership or collaborative
  ethos
• Failure to focus on, or understand, the cause of
  the problem
• Obsession with the strategic perspective
• No tangible outcome

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The Phoenix Programme What is its aim?

• Reduce gun enabled crime
• Embed collaborative working through effective
  partnership between statutory and voluntary
  (community) sector
• Minimise risk associated with gun enabled crime
  by working intensely with the local community
• Improve intelligence it challenges our beliefs!
• Engage with, and tackle the core group the
  obvious priority
• Engage with the bigger picture family and
  carers
• Improve life chances, attitude and behaviour

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The Phoenix Programme What is its aim?

Community delivered intervention projects
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The Phoenix Programme How have we achieved our
progress to date?
Reduction in offending

• Critical Interventions
• Numeracy and literacy
• Parenting and relationships
• Education, training and employment
• Life skills and social skills
• Offender behaviour group work
• Substance misuse

Effective targeting

• Synthesising research
• Academic
• Community
• NACRO
• YOT
• MPS

Understanding to inform specific strategy

• 50 cohort
• Statutory
• Mandatory
• Community efficacy
• Tangible outcomes
• Integrated
• Evaluated
• Control group

• Know crime
• Know about crime
• problems
• Know what reduces crime
  
• Know how to put it into practice
• Know who to involve
• Know where to
• distribute resources
• Know why values,
• politics, ethics

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The Phoenix Programme What have we learnt?

• Programme management (our version)
• Understand the market
• Exploit diversity without it you wont survive
• Requires considerable emotional intelligence
  transformation takes place because of personality
  then processes
• Highly consultative and uncompromising honesty
  be provocative
• Rigid adherence to agreed criteria
• Identified what and who matters
• Trusted relationship between strategic and
  operational leads
• The term itself provided confidence and clarity
  for all concerned
• Do not over promise
• Ensure accountability threads through the entire
  process

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The Phoenix Programme What were the blockages?

• Persistence of anecdote shaping decision making
  and policy
• Superficial interventions dodgy rationale
• Limited innovation and lack of synthesis of
  results
• Weak or no evaluations
• Encouraging rhetoric but reluctance to surrender
  resources
• External pressures to distil original criteria
• In this case police too fast,council too slow
• Beware some like process, other content and
  some neither!
• Money has no political correctness
• Personal agendas picking the blossoming
  flower

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The Phoenix Programme How have we achieved our
progress to date?

• Identified exactly what is required from the
  outset
• Credible delivery agents black community groups
• Effective and transparent governance structure
• Evidence to support what the real problem is
  not anecdote or perception
• A universal commitment in all quarters
• A very SMART action plan to realise key
  enablers
• Adopted programme management fundamentals
• Leadership in key positions
• Community
• Programme Office
• Strategic Board

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The Phoenix Programme What would we do
differently?

• Demarcate between change management and programme
  management at an earlier stage if thats
  possible
• Introduce programme management fundamentals from
  the outset
• Insist on all enablers being in place before you
  start
• Not assume anything or take things for granted
• Not waste energy on justifying criteria it can
  and will erode your focus

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The Phoenix Programme Where do we see this
programme in the future?

• Motivate others in the community, still hesitant,
  to mobilise themselves
• Hold the strategic sector to account and allow a
  greater level of influence in shaping policy
• Use the current cohort in the future as
  positive role models with active involvement in
  future interventions
• Through a credible evaluation process attract
  funders away from gimmicky and ineffective
  initiatives
• Achieve the full cross-cutting programme
  Phoenix is merely a programme within a programme

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The Phoenix Programme The landscape prior to
Programme management!
Young offender
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The Phoenix Programme Programme management
governance begins to take effect
Community delivery agents Phoenix programme
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Lambeth Gun Crime Programme Board Action Report
14 Draft programme plan
24.0406
20.2.06
3.04.06
9.09.05
6.01.06
14.4.06
19.3.07
2.04.07
8.01.7
2.10.06
20.3.06
2.10.06
8.01.7
30.0606
17.1006
Programme Board Strategic oversight, setting
priorities, coordinating and directing
Programme Board Strategic oversight, setting
priorities, coordinating and directing
MPS Review and development
Programme Office Development
Programme Office Development, monitoring,
evaluation and reporting functions
Programme Office Development
Programme Office Development, monitoring,
evaluation and reporting functions
Programme Consortium (LGCC and GIG merger)
initiated
Programme Consortium (LGCC and GIG merger)
initiated
GIP On-going activity
LGCC Development
Programme Launch
Commissioning Process I
E
Programme Prevention strand Funding released
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Commissioning Process II
Commissioning Process I
Programme Prevention strand Funding released
Prevention Implementation
Prevention Development
Prevention Monitoring
Prevention Monitoring
Prevention Evaluation
Prevention Development
Prevention Development
Prevention Development
Prevention Monitoring
Enforcement Evaluation
Enforcement Monitoring
Enforcement Implementation
Enforcement Development
Enforcement Monitoring
Rehabilitation Development
Rehabilitation Implementation
Rehabilitation Monitoring
Rehabilitation Evaluation
Rehabilitation Monitoring
Risk
Cost
Resources
P Pre-commissioning phase capacity building E
Evaluation of submitted work proposals
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Lambeth Gun Crime Programme Board Action Report
14 Draft prevention phase commissioning process
24.04.06
14.4.06
06.3.06
3.04.06
24.04.06
20.3.06
Programme launch (local press conference)
Programme Board Strategic oversight, setting
priorities, coordinating and directing
Programme Board Strategic oversight, setting
priorities, coordinating and directing
Programme Office Development, monitoring,
evaluation and reporting functions
GIP On-going activity
Programme Consortium (LGCC and GIG merger)
initiated Services delivery
LGCC Development

• Evaluation of bids
• Criteria compliance
• Sound rationale
• Efficacy
• Programme integrated
• Cost/benefit

• Pre-commissioning phase
• Merger work continues
• 50 cohort explained
• Mandatory services
• Discretionary method
• Integrated programme
• 12 months duration

• Prevention strand commences
• Allocation of cohort subjects
• Delivery of services
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Control group evaluated
• Thomas Coram Research Institute

• Commissioning phase starts
• Invite consortium to bid for funding
• Stress compliance to criteria
• Performance/evaluation tool
• Programme Office support
• Timely submission

• Selection of bids and funding allocations
• Evaluation of bids
• Funding allocated

Programme Board Evaluation and allocation
Programme Office Development and Consultation
Programme Office Development and support
Programme Office Evaluation function
Programme Office Monitoring and support function
Prevention Implementation
Prevention Implementation
Prevention strand Development
Prevention Monitoring
Programme timetable Integrated project structure
Evaluation tool adjustments
LGCC disengagement / Corporate resistance /
Conflicting organizational priorities /
Resistance to evaluation (VCS) / Funding
shortfall
Risk
Cost
Resources
P Pre-commissioning phase capacity building E
Evaluation of submitted work proposals
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The Phoenix Programme Programme management
clarity and uncompromising collaboration.
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The Phoenix Programme Programme management a
first.
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The Phoenix Programme

• Questions?

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