Our ambition is to bring local information together into one clear view: identifying youth harm hotspots, understanding what is driving them and helping partners target prevention, diversionary activity and support more intelligently.
Choose a harm category and select a hotspot. The demonstration below shows how a future live dashboard could work once connected to verified local datasets.
Repeated reports indicate a concentration of vaping, alcohol-related concerns and antisocial behaviour during late afternoon and evening periods.
Deploy an evening mobile youth hub, combine esports and skills activity with detached youth workers, and engage retailers and community safety partners around vaping and alcohol access.
A useful intelligence platform should show individual harms while also revealing where they overlap. That allows prevention to address the conditions around the behaviour, not just the behaviour itself.
Underage access, street drinking, intoxication, alcohol-related incidents and areas where young people repeatedly gather.
Reported use, school intelligence, retailer concerns, illicit product activity and patterns around age groups or locations.
Substance concerns, possession incidents, exploitation indicators and links between locations and vulnerability.
Noise, damage, intimidation, repeated calls for service and community concerns around gathering places.
Violence, weapon concerns, criminal exploitation, coercion and other safeguarding indicators requiring coordinated action.
Cyberbullying, harmful content, exploitation, online conflict and digital behaviours that may spill into physical locations.
Persistent absence, exclusions, disengagement and other signals that may indicate increasing vulnerability.
Where appropriate and lawful, aggregated indicators can help partners understand wider wellbeing and support needs.
Map not only harm but the absence of youth provision, transport, training, safe spaces and positive activity.
No single organisation sees the whole picture. The strongest model combines lawful, appropriately anonymised or aggregated information from multiple sources.
Incident patterns, ASB, violence, hotspot and time-of-day intelligence.
Aggregated attendance, exclusions, safeguarding themes and pupil voice.
Youth provision, community safety, licensing, public health and neighbourhood insight.
Aggregated trends relating to substance use, wellbeing and prevention priorities.
Attempted underage purchases, proxy purchasing, theft or local product concerns.
On-the-ground intelligence about gathering places, emerging issues and changing behaviour.
Anonymous surveys, youth panels and direct feedback about where they feel safe, unsafe or unsupported.
Resident concerns, local knowledge, service demand and information about gaps in opportunity.
Combine partner data to identify an emerging hotspot or change in the pattern of harm.
Break the hotspot down by type of harm, time, demographic patterns and existing provision.
Deploy the right intervention: youth bus, pop-up activity, mentoring, retailer work, outreach or specialist support.
Track participation and changes in the local indicators to understand whether the intervention is working.
The long-term opportunity is a secure Youth Futures intelligence platform where authorised partners can understand changing patterns of harm, identify gaps in provision and jointly decide where prevention resources should go next.
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