News on Lambeth Safer Streets

Lambeth is leading on this project, working in partnership with specialist providers Richmond Fellowship (DVIP), Refuge, Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing, and London boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark, Kingston, Merton, Richmond and Wandsworth. The coordinated response across South London has been the focus on recent news articles including a published article on BBC News.

Cllr Hashi, said: “This type of London wide collaboration, alongside leading national projects and partners, is essential and demonstrates our commitment to make a real improvement to the safety of women and girls.”

Through Prevent and Change we will work one to one with perpetrators in the community, particularly those with multiple need. Project delivery began in June, with the service bringing together local partnerships to manage high-risk individuals referred in.

Across the next two years the council will enhance its understanding of harmful behaviours within diverse and marginalised groups to offer community-informed responses by the partnership. This work addresses a priority aim of the Lambeth’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy 2021-2027 by developing and commission evidence-based perpetrator intervention. This will also support the commitments and ambition of the Borough Planand support to make Lambeth one of the safest boroughs.