Building Trust: Building Bridges Lorraine Briscoe Community Gang and Gun Crime Doreen Bailey Crown P

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Building Trust Building BridgesLorraine
BriscoeCommunity Gang and Gun CrimeDoreen
BaileyCrown Prosecution Service
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BUILDING TRUSTBUILDING BRIDGES
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WHO ARE WE?

• Lorraine Briscoe
• Community consultant
• Advisor to Safer Neighbourhood Panel BCC
• Aston Resident
• Board Member Aston Pride
• Vice Chair SACA

Doreen Bailey Barrister Crown Prosecution Service
/ Higher Court Advocate Chair SACA Community
Volunteer
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Community Problems

• Insecurity / Fear on the street / parks / home
• No meaning to life and no future
• Unreported rapes and burglaries
• Drug Problems
• Adolescent Gangs
• Lack of community spirit/ hopes and dreams
• Lack of places to socialise
• Job discrimination
• Parenting skills
• Crimes of boredom
• Lack of trust between ethnic communities

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Scenario
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Problems with Funding Agencies

• Fragmented approach
• Difficulty in understanding jargon
• Them and us situation
• Broken promises
• Exclusion of some groups, local residents

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Building Trust

• Look at the whole problem
• Bottom up approach
• Understanding community jargon
• Change must be seen to be taking place