Focus Weeks in Barking

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Focus Weeksin Barking Dagenhamthe
Gascoigne Estate
For London Borough of Barking DagenhamGlynis
Rogers, Head of Community Safety Preventive
ServicesMark Tyson, Strategic Group Manager,
Community Safety For Metropolitan Police
(Barking Dagenham)Ch Insp Nick Hancock,
Community Partnerships
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Context Barking Dagenham

• BCS Crime
• increases to Jul 06, but
• 6.5 reduction Mar 07
• Partnership restructure underway
• New management teams
• Neighbourhood Management
• Data-driven refocus

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Context Gascoigne Estate

• Englands 554th most deprived ward
• Largely Council tenanted
• Mixed high-rise, low-rise
• Reasonable infrastructure
• Lack of engagement and participation
• Major regeneration plans

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Focus Weeks Approach

• Four Es
• Engagement, Education, Environment, Enforcement
• As many partners as possible building slowly
• Forerunner of Nhood Management
• Building engagement, raising expectations
• Testing partners
• Weekly Ops Group, then daily briefing
• Engagement the challenge

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Engagement

• Range of locations
• Childrens Centre, Community Centre
• Baseline (YIP)
• Street (via Wardens, SNT, etc.)
• Doctors Surgery, older peoples centre
• Range of techniques
• Questionnaire
• Focus groups discussing maps of estate
• Community Mediation

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Engagement Comm. Mediation

• Perceptions of both groups
• Of each other
• Of facilities and activities on estate
• Around 25 took part
• Quickly organised used key contacts
• Shift in perceptions
• Young people demonstrating understanding of
  issues for older people
• Older people seeing young people approachable

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The London Borough of

Barking
Dagenham