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Prevent funding for 09/10

£143,292 for 09/10

 

 

Project name

Date

Project details

Project total

Staff Training Programme

09-Oct

Training course

5,000

PVE & Community Cohesion Officer

Sep-09

To deliver PVE action plan.

43,000

Emergency Planning Community

8.7.09


Counter terrorism exercise was carried out with the aim to test the multi agency response plans to a terrorist incident occurring in the London Borough of Bexley and help prevent the adverse affect that terrorist incidents have previously on community cohesion elsewhere in London.

4,500

Bexley Bangladeshi Women's Association

30.1.2010

EID Celebration with a special focus on Rebutting Honour Crimes and Forced Marriages according to Islam.

2,500

Transform Bexley Borough CABB

Start May 2010

A project specifically designed to prevent young people from being groomed over the internet.

10,000

North West Kent Muslim Assoc, Mosque Open Day.

TBC

Inviting the local residents of Crayford and surrounding areas to visit the Mosque, meet the local Muslim Community including the Imam.

2,500

CACT

Start April 2010

Development of a crime reduction initiative through sport. Designed to combat and prevent violent extremism in relation to both, Islamic extremism amongst Bexley's Muslim community and far right extremism amongst Bexley's Indigenous Community.

30,000

Betta Dayz

26/01/2010

(1) To produce a training resource and DVD around the theme of Community Cohesion
(2) To deliver workshops from the above training resource
(3) To deliver two rounds of “train the trainer” training

20,000

CCTV

01/04/2010

For Crayford High Street.

33,194

Total:

 

 

 

150,694

 

 

 

 

Prevent funding for 10/11

£137,830 for 10/11

 

 

Project name

Date

Project details

Project total

PVE & Community Cohesion Officer

Cont Apr 2010

Continuation of delivering PVE and Cohesion action plan

43,000

CACT

Cont Apr 2010

Charlton Athletic Development of a crime reduction initiative through sport. Designed to combat and prevent violent extremism in relation to both, Islamic extremism amongst Bexley's Muslim community and far right extremism amongst Bexley's Indigenous Community. This funding has also secured additional funding from the Football foundation in order for a 3 year project.

58,000

Security & Anti Terrorism Awareness

Cont Apr 2010

Various Training around PVE issues

1,320

CIT team (for honour crime victims)

Cont Apr 2010

Crisis Intervention Team to support Honour Crime Victims

2,000

U Turn 1

Cont Apr 2010

A Project focusing on young people with the potential to become involved in youth crime, with a view to keeping Bexley safe.
• Provide opportunity and support for young people to make life changing choices, particularly those vulnerable to radicalisation.
• Develop a sense of pride, confidence and self esteem through education and sport.
• Encourage young people to take responsibility for their behaviour, the consequences of it and impact it has on others.
• Promote peer mentoring as a route to impact on the wider community.

20,000

Special Constabulary (1/2 post)

Cont Apr 2010

To complete the third year of a three year partnership initiative to increase the number of special constables to 200 over 3 years. This will enable us to provide more community based officers for a full range of activities including engagement and public protection.

23,000

Total:

 

 

 

147,320

The Prevent Action plan is as follows:-

NI 35 Strand

Prevent Objective

Key Activities

Milestones

Outcome

Funding Allocation*

*Note if no resource amount is indicated, the activity is supported from mainstream funding

Lead

Understanding

of, and

engagement

with, Muslim

communities

Knowledge and understanding of the Preventing Violent Extremism agenda

6

Understand the local community by developing a database of all component parts of the community, community contact points, community leaders, community opinion formers, and places of significance to communities

Profiles for community groups drafted and updated from 2009 and ongoing (Document from Ginny)

Prevent Coordinator & Safer Neighbourhood Teams engaged with wider community.

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator

6

Develop contacts with key individuals who are influential in communities and who may help others to form opinions

Networks To be developed

Contacts in place and effective relationships developed

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator

1, 3, 4, 5, 7

Strengthen partnership with local Mosques to deliver local Prevent work.

Engagement with mosques to deliver on the PVE agenda on the following 4 themes:

  • Involve and empower local

Women

  • Involve and empower

young people

  • Interfaith work

  • PVE focussed work

Prevent coordinator to forge close links with the Mosques. - On going

To arrange regular visits to the Mosques and provide support.

Mosques will has a clear role in delivering local Prevent agenda.

Prevent coordinator is able to link as appropriate to local mosques, e.g. visits, support, etc

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator, Mosque Committees (Crayford and Sidcup)

4

Build capacity of local Mosque to deliver Prevent work

Sidcup Mosque will have educational programme put in place. This should incorporate prevent agenda.

Mosques able to direct their own youth into correct path without Government involvement.

Crayford and Sidcup Mosques

1, 3, 6

Commission and deliver Research Projects:

Conduct research and discussions to capture views, perceptions and challenges faced by Muslims on the PVE agenda.

Project completion - Mar 2011

Better understanding of local needs for the Prevent work.

4, 5

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator to be main point of contact for info on prevent.

Full knowledge of all relevant documents by Dec 2010.

Council members and teams have access to central point of contact regarding Prevent.

To be determined (i.e. possible purchase of material and attending training)

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator

6

Regular meetings with Safer Neighbourhood Team

Meeting to be schedule in place from Apr 2010

Police and Council activities are tied together and strategically focused

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator & Safer Neighbourhood Team

6

Regular meetings with Counter Terrorism Intelligence Officer (CTIOs) at the prevent steering group.

Set up and continue regular meetings with CTIOs from May 2010

Prevent coordinator has all relevant and necessary information to focus projects effectively

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator

6

Mapping of `hotspots'

Tie in with wider Community Safety work to incorporate Prevent considerations during community consultation on general community safety issues

Existing mechanisms provide an improved understanding of what is going in the borough and where

Community Safety Team, Prevent & Cohesion coordinator

4, 6

Engagement and training sessions with local Councillors and Council staff.

Local PVE conference as follow up to training sessions organised

Regular updates provided

On going training sessions from Sept 2010

Conference to be organised 2011

Ongoing engagement with local politicians to ensure they are aware and up-to-date

Increased communications with local councillors

Awareness training so Councillors and council staff can deal with the agenda effectively within communities

Effectively address grievances by conference.

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator & all Equalities Team

Effective development of an action plan to build the resilience of communities and support vulnerable individuals

Effective oversight, delivery and evaluation of projects and actions

2

Deliver advice to individuals and community groups regarding the abuse of the internet for extremist purposes and draft a voluntary code of conduct.

Delivery after mapping of venues during ward profiles May 2010 onwards with Martin Seymour.

Briefing to all public internet providers as part of CABB.

Code of conduct in place with evidence of widespread ownership

Police Prevent Team, Martin Seymour & Prevent & Cohesion coordinator

5

Establishing an effective reporting mechanism in reporting Hate crimes

3rd Party Reporting to be up and running by Dec 2010

Reporting systems accessible to all

Prevent & Cohesion coordinator & Community Safety

1, 3, 4

Roll out locally tailored Schools Toolkit

Work to be done with Betta Dayz to be completed by December 2010.

Raise awareness amongst local schools of the threat risks for young people

Schools understand positive contribution they can make and how they can support vulnerable young people

Betta Dayz & Prevent & Cohesion coordinator

2,3

Develop programme of work with Police CT Team to increase their capacity to identify and work with young people at risk of radicalization through Channel.

Prevent coordinator and CT will develop a de-radicalization

programme to work with young people at risk and act as a diversionary programme and a support mechanism from 2011 onwards.

Implementation of programme 2011 onwards.

Developed a de-radicalisation programme that engages a significant number of at risk young individuals

Prevent & cohesion Coordinator along with CT Team.

3

Explore development of work on violent extremism with offenders, focusing on those returning to the borough from prison

Programme designed with National Offenders Management Service (NOMS) 2011.

Structured programmes delivered for ex-offenders upon release in partnership with the Muslim Chaplains Association.

To be determined

4

Develop the capacity of local Muslim women to play an effective role in Prevent work.

Co-ordinating a Muslim women's forum

Link in with National Women Advisory Group

Robust women's strand that is self sustaining and engages a substantial number of women

A local Muslim women's forum that feeds into the local Prevent agenda and engages with wider community members

Strengthen women's strand through tying in with national work.

Enhanced work with young Muslim girls using existing frameworks

Project engaging women in the arts, drama and creative industry

Fully functioning Information Sharing Protocol set up

Mechanism in place to share sensitive information for all projects that have signed onto it

Enhanced information sharing between all partners involved on sensitive cases

Review and evaluate effectiveness Jan 2010 and Jan 2011

Effective mechanism for dealing with identified vulnerable young people

All projects working with vulnerable young people tied in to referral board

Successful small and large projects, that engage a significant number of the Muslim community in Bexley, including young people, women, and other prominent individuals in the Muslim community

Success to be measured through evaluation and review processes

Bexley Muslim Women's Association.

1, 2, 3, 6, 7

Implementation of Information Sharing Protocol

Develop Information Sharing Protocol from Sep (After agreement of 3rd party reporting form)

Prevent & cohesion Coordinator along with CT Team.

1, 2, 3, 4

Set up referral board for vulnerable young individuals

Structure of board, identify relevant partners and a referral mechanism

Ensure all referrals are dealt with effectively and sensitively.

Prevent & Cohesion Coordinator & CT TAG

All

Community projects are in place to build capacity of wider community to engage with Prevent agenda

Projects commissioned from Apr 2010

Coordinated by the Prevent & cohesion Coordinator.

4

Workshops and discussions on `Islam and Islamism' and strengthening relations between Police

Project completion by Mar 2011

3, 4

Delivering sessions on the above agenda to local schools via established links

Project completion by Mar 2011

4, 5

Charlton Football Club

Utilising football to engage with young people at risk including working with Crayford and Woolwich Mosque and surrounding estates

Project completion by Mar 2011

Confirmed

Charlton Football Club, Prevent & cohesion coordinator.

2, 3, 4

Development of young peer led mentors from Youth Council to provide support for vulnerable young people at risk or exposed to extremism.

Project completion by Mar 2011