The conference, planned by social policy research company Action Research Consultants, will bring together statutory and voluntary organisations to agree a five-year preventative programme of action.
A Community Gang Prevention Network is being formed before the event to facilitate co-operation between grass-roots projects that tackle gang culture. Eighteen projects are involved.
Ian Joseph, director of the research firm, said: "In tackling gang culture, the voluntary sector often comes up with an approach the statutory sector can't match and fills in the gaps. Until now, there has been no national systematic thought-out way of delivering the bottom-up community approach."
A web site dedicated to the conference and the forthcoming strategy will be set up early in the New Year.
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