Presentation by Superintendent Ted Antill
Minutes:
Superintendent Ted Antill gave a presentation to the Board providing a Partnership Update from Nottinghamshire Police. He highlighted the following points:
(a) Nottinghamshire police are reintroducing officers into schools across the area in a pilot that has been running since September 2017. There are currently 4 schools in the City with an officer in place;
(b) The School Early Intervention Officer’s (SEIO) time is split between delivering lessons on issues such as substance misuse, online safety and knife crime, and delivering restorative justice interventions, investigating crimes, Anti-social behaviour incidents, liaising with partners and problem solving interventions;
(c) Lesson content and other work can be targeted and specifically tailored to the school’s need;
(d) Officers do not just spend time in a school setting, they are integrating into the communities in order to interact with the young people outside of school and aim to break down the barriers between the community and the Police;
(e) At Nottingham Academy there has been a PCSO engaged in activities very similar to these for a number of months. An officer will be joining the PCSO and any learning from their role and experience will be built into the pilot scheme;
(f) 51% of people that went missing during 2016/17 were under the age of 18, young people between 12 and 17 are more likely to go missing. Repeat missing children account for a large proportion of missing incidents recorded in Nottinghamshire;
(g) Those young people who are also at risk of CSE are considered a high risk missing person;
(h) Any young person has been reported as missing 3 or more times in a 90 period is the subject of a multi-agency intervention;
(i) Work is carried out with care placements to ensure a robust plan is in place should a child go missing. A small pilot scheme was run involving 3 prolific missing and at risk of CSE young people. The missing from home officer attended the care placement and worked with the placement as well as the young person and there was a significant reduction of missing episodes;
Following questions and comments from the Board the following information was highlighted:
(j) The SEIO pilot was launched very quickly. Following the initial period of the pilot there will be full consultation with the Youth Offending Team, Priority Families Team and other partners. This will help to avoid duplication of work and will ensure that there are no gaps in provision;
(k) A consistent message across the City is essential, sometimes the work delivered can feel a little generic, something Nottingham focused would be helpful in engaging young people;
(l) The SEIO’s are having 5 full days training. There is limited training available to them around working with young people with learning disabilities or difficulties. As the number of officers in schools increase this is an aspect that will come to the front. A further evolution of the training will be to take the scheme into primary schools;
RESOLVED to note the content of the update from Nottinghamshire Police.