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Serious violence inquiry

Inquiry by the Home Affairs Committee, 30 April 2018 to 30 April 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 16 October 2018: Philippa Addai, Darren Laville, Founder of the Epiphany People, Yvonne Lawson, CEO of the Godwin Lawson Foundation, Caroline Shearer, CEO of Only Cowards Carry Weapons Awareness; Duncan Bew, Consultant Trauma & Acute Surgeon, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Maggie Clarke, Assistant Director – Universal Services, Compass, Dr Magnus Nelson, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Assistant Medical Director, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
  • 29 January 2019: Deputy Assistant Commissioner Duncan Ball, Lead for Gangs, National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), Nikki Holland, Director of Investigations, National Crime Agency, Assistant Chief Constable Jacqueline Sebire, Bedfordshire Police and NPCC Serious Violence Co-ordinator; Councillor Simon Blackburn, Chair - Safer and Stronger Communities Board, Local Government Association, Lucy Dacey, National Programme Manager, Disrupting Exploitation Programme, The Children's Society, Simon Ford, Director, Violence and Vulnerability Unit, Evan Jones, Head of Community Services, St Giles Trust
  • 12 March 2019: Chief Constable Sara Thornton CBE QPM, Chair, National Police Chiefs' Council
  • 19 March 2019: Dr Carlene Firmin MBE, Principal Research Fellow, University of Bedfordshire, Dr Simon Harding, Professor in Criminology, University of West London, and Junior Smart, Business Development Manager, St Giles Trust; Sir Denis O’Connor CBE QPM, former Chief Inspector of Constabulary (at 11.00am).
  • 26 March 2019: Professor Fiona Measham, Professor of Criminology, University of Durham, Steve Rodhouse, Director General (Operations), NCA, Harry Shapiro, Director, Drugwise, and Dr Michael Shiner, Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics; Cressida Dick CBE QPM, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Dave Thompson QPM, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police (at 11.00am).
  • 2 April 2019: Dr Suchitra Bhandari, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust; Dr Lucy Gore, Clinical Psychologist and Deputy Project Lead, Project Future; and Dr Hannah Stringer, Clinical Psychologist, Project Future; SC, Community Consultant, Project Future; RN, Community Consultant, Project Future; Dr Suchitra Bhandari; Dr Lucy Gore; and Dr Hannah Stringer.
  • 30 April 2019: Mark Burns-Williamson OBE, Chair and Serious Violence Lead, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, and PCC for West Yorkshire, Vicky Foxcroft MP, Youth Violence Commission, and David Lloyd, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire: Dame Louise Casey DBE CB, former Director General of the Troubled Families programme and former Victims’ Commissioner, and Anne Longfield OBE, Children’s Commissioner for England
  • 8 May 2019: Victoria Atkins MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, Dan Greaves, Crime Director for the Crime, Policing and Fire Group, Home Office