Select committee: Home Affairs Committee
16th Report - Serious youth violence
HC 1016
Published 31 July 2019
Home Affairs Committee Serious violence inquiry Report on parliament.uk ↗
At a glanceGovernment response published 5 November 2019
The government's response
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.
The government says it has "carefully considered" the Committee's report and sets out existing and new action on serious violence, while declining some specific recommendations.
- It is introducing a Serious Violence Bill to create a legal duty on specified agencies to plan and collaborate to prevent and reduce serious violence, with guidance "in due course".
- On police funding, it commits to recruiting 20,000 additional officers over three years, with up to 6,000 by March 2021.
- On a statutory Youth Service Guarantee, it says local authorities are "best placed to know what is required" locally, and points to £500 million for a Youth Investment Fund over five years.
- It has "no plans for a further independent inquiry" into school exclusions, citing the Timpson Review, and on the Information Commissioner says there are "no current plans" for a new role.
What the committee recommended
No recommendations or conclusions have been extracted from this report. This is normal for correspondence and for special reports.
Sources
- 16th Report - Serious youth violence ↗The committee's report, HC 1016, parliament.uk
- Government response to Committee's Report on Serious youth violence ↗The government's response, 5 November 2019, parliament.uk