Impact of Training
To date, the CHS has delivered evidence-based training to more than 2000 practitioners and policy-makers working in criminal justice, education, local authorities, and health and social care from around the UK. Evaluation at 3 and 6 months after the training has identified a number of key impacts at an organisational-level, including that the training had:
- Directly informed new hate crime policies or strategies
- Directly shaped hate crime training for staff
- Directly influenced new support pathways for victims reporting hate crime
- Led to the creation of hate crime champions or hate crime specialist roles within their organisations
On an individual-level, feedback from practitioners and policy-makers who had undergone the training suggests that it had significantly improved their understanding of:
- The forms that hate crime takes
- The impact that hate crime has on victims
- The support needs of hate crime victims
- How and where to signpost victims for support
- How reporting rates can be increased
- Why people commit hate crime
- Existing hate crime policy and legislation
Specifically, evidence collected 3-6 months after the training illustrates that significant numbers of practitioners and policy-makers felt that it had improved practice because it had helped them:
- To better identify hate crimes and incidents
- To improve flagging or recording practices
- To improve investigative processes
- To improve outcomes for victims (e.g. More cases going to court, dispute resolved)
- To improve organisational practice (e.g. New assessment tools, engagement approaches, infrastructure)
- To increase reporting