The government has issued updated guidance designed to encourage public bodies to increase their use of injunctions to prevent gang-related violence and drug dealing.
CYP Now looks at how these injunctions work and what the guidance will mean for the way local government and justice agencies use them with young people.
What is a gang injunction and when can one be granted?
Gang injunctions can be granted to prevent a young person from engaging in, encouraging or assisting gang-related violence or gang-related drug dealing. It can also be used to protect the subject of an injunction from gang-related violence or drug dealing activity.
There must be evidence that the subject of the injunction has engaged in, encouraged or assisted gang-related violence or drug dealing.
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