Project Overview
The project will develop improved hate crime support services and policies for people with disabilities, people with learning disabilities, people with mental health issues, older people and LGBT residents.
Though it will focus on improved support for identified gaps and needs for these five groups it will build links and learn lessons from more established hate crime support services around race, faith and domestic violence.
This is a development project to March 2010. However, as part of the project funding bids will be made to extend the project and employ an advocacy worker to provide one to one support to victims

Overall Aim
Working with key consortium members, this project aims to address the current gaps in Hate Crime knowledge, understanding and best practice for five key groups of hate crime victims – older people, people with mental health issues, people with learning disabilities people with disabilities and LGBT people.
What we will do

• Develop models of best practice in addressing and dealing with hate crime for five key groups of Ealing residents.
• Strengthen the established consortium of members currently working with the five key groups of hate crime victims and their partnership with key statutory bodies in the borough.
• Identify key best practice and policy guidance for statutory and voluntary partners working with hate crime victims.
• Explore and develop a third party reporting system based on the project learning to support the needs of one of the identified groups of victims.
• Secure long-term sustainability of the Hate Crime Project beyond six month funding.

What we hope to achieve

• Increased partnership working between statutory and voluntary groups working with the five key groups affected by hate crime.
• Increased understanding of current practice, experiences of victims and best practice models for working with hate crime for the five key groups listed.
• Strengthened of hate crime reporting best practice via online resources.
• A new third party reporting initiative for one of the five groups along the model of ‘supported reporting’.
• Longer term project sustainability addressed.

To find out more about this project and how to get involved
Or contact Peter Vittles on 020 8280 2286 or email peter@ealingcvs.org.uk or