Agenda item

9.1

The Committee viewed a video presentation on Disability Hate Crime which had been produced by Sheffield Voices, a group of people with a learning disability who run a self-advocacy group supported by Disability Sheffield.  Members also received a report of the Policy and Improvement Officer, which provided a brief update following the first meeting of its Hate Crime Task Group.  In presenting the report, the Policy and Improvement Officer referred to plans for evidence gathering and indicated that the Group would present its final draft report to the Committee for approval at its meeting on 16^th February 2017.

9.2

Also present for this item was Maxine Stavrianakos (Head of Neighbourhood Intervention and Tenant Support).

9.3

The Chair, Councillor Tony Damms, indicated that the Task Group would concentrate on the reporting of Hate Crime in order to avoid duplication with other work which was being undertaken in this field.    Members felt that the video was very powerful and that it could be used as a training aid.  Suggestions were made for the video presentation to be used in connection with restorative justice programmes run by the Probation Service and for it to be viewed by Tenants’ and Residents’ Associations.  Following on from this, it was suggested that a future Committee meeting could consider an item on restorative justice, with the co-ordinator of the Council’s Anti-Social Behaviour Team in attendance.

9.4

RESOLVED: That the Committee:-

(a)       notes the information contained in the video presentation and report; and

(b)       requests that an item on restorative justice be added to its Work Programme for consideration at a convenient date.