9 Powers to collaborate and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence

9  Powers to collaborate and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence

(1)     Two or more specified authorities may collaborate with each other to prevent and reduce serious violence in a relevant area.

(2)     The power conferred on specified authorities by subsection (1) includes a power to plan together to exercise their functions so as to prevent and reduce serious violence in a relevant area.

(3)     In particular, the specified authorities may—

(a)     identify the kinds of serious violence that occur in a relevant area,

(b)     identify the causes of serious violence in the area, and

(c)     prepare and implement a strategy for exercising their functions to prevent and reduce serious violence in the area.

(4)     In preparing a strategy under this section for a relevant area, the specified authorities preparing the strategy must ensure that the following are consulted—

(a)     every other specified authority for the area;

(b)     each educational authority for the area;

(c)     each prison authority for the area;

(d)     each youth custody authority for the area.

(5)     A strategy under this section

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