The document summarizes the work of the Margate Task Force, a multi-agency group working to address challenges in Margate, Kent, UK. It includes a list of 30 staff from various organizations that are part of the task force. It then describes some of the key challenges they are facing, including benefit changes, vulnerable people and poverty, homes of multiple occupancy, and organized crime. It provides two case studies. It also details some statistics on issues like housing, youth crime, ambulance pick-ups, and the drain on public resources. It outlines the work of two specific initiatives - A Better Cliftonville and their listening and feedback events.

2. Group Manager Martin Skeet
Kent Fire & Rescue Service
Tactical Lead Officer
Inspector Mark Pearson
Kent Police
Deputy Lead Officer

3. Margate Task Force - 30 Staff
• Kent County Council (KCC) Community Wardens
• KCC Social Services (Children)
• KCC Trading Standards
• Police
• Kent Fire & Rescue Service
• Probation Service
• Job Centre Plus (DWP)
• TDC Housing
• NHS – Public Health (GP, Health Trainers, Health Visitor, Community
Psychiatric Nurse)
• Family Intervention Workers (Troubled Families)
• Kent Council for Addiction ( KCA & Turning Point)
• Thanet District Council (TDC) Enforcement Services
• Global Generation – Pipeline, Community Action Teams, Community Pastors
• United Kingdom Border Agency
• CXK (16-18 yo NEETS)
• Thanet Community Networks

4. Challenges
Benefit Changes
Placement of Vulnerable
People & Poverty
Homes of Multiple Occupancy
Organised Crime
Extreme Health Inequalities

5. Case Study 1.

6. Case Study 2.

10. Gangs’ Co-operative
• Russians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Orientals, local white English –
Cannabis Cultivation
• Czechs, Slovaks, Czech Roma, Slovak Roma, local white English,
Local Afro-Caribbeans, London Afro-Caribbeans – supply and
distribution Heroin, Cocaine, Pervitin, MDMA
• Local and London Borough Polish – organised Shoplifting
• Pakistanis and Czech/Slovak Roma – Handling Stolen Goods
from drug generated crime and ‘Sham Marriages’
• London Afro-Caribbeans and London white English –
transportation of Class A Drugs into Thanet from London

11. Housing Profile
80+% privately rented
45% single person
occupancy
60% of dwellings are flats
Numerous HMOs
50+% fail Decent Homes
Standard
800+ empty properties

12. Youth Crime
Financial Year 2011/12.
Looked After Children (LAC) known to Youth Offending Service: -
52 LAC (10 Kent, 42 Other Local Authority)
Registered Childrens Homes (current residents 11 in total): -
1 Kent, the remainder - 3 Suffolk, 1 Essex, 1 Southwark, 1 Lambeth,
1 Wokingham, 1 Barnet, 1 Buckinghamshire, 1 Warwickshire
Thanet Youth Court (1 week sample): -
Total of 9 clients (6 LAC - 1 Southwark, 2 Medway, 2 Essex, 1 Kent)
Justice Cost of LAC in one week - £15,000 plus associated JCP and
medical costs locally
Thanet Annual LAC Cost £780,000

14. Almost 600 Ambulance Pick-Ups (only 4 specific categories): -
Assault
Overdose & Poisoning
Mental Health – Suicide Attempt
Stab/Shot/Penetrative Trauma (incl. Arm and Hand Stabbing)
Mental Health ‘Heat Map’ (based on 1 local Surgery’s data)
Ambulance Pick-Ups (1 year period)

15. Drain on publicresources
Social services
• Vulnerable adults
• Looked After Children
• Drug and alcohol abusers
• Mental health problems
PCT
• Health inequalities
• Admissions to A&E
Police
- Crime levels
- Social cohesion
Probation Service
- Management of ex-offenders
Education
-Poor attainment
- High turnover in schools
- Teenage pregnancies
Thanet DC
- Street cleaning
- Waste management
- Homelessness
- Supported housing
- HMO registration
- Empty Properties
- Regulation of private
landlords
- Housing Benefits

17. ABC
A Better Cliftonville
Our Listening Event

22. ABC
Our Feedback event

29. ‘Right up your Alley’