About

Mark is a community safety officer for a Metropolitan Borough Council in the west midlands, and has responsibilities for Hate Crime, Community Cohesion/Tensions, Prevent, Protect and Prepare amongst other things.

Mark is recognised as an Extremism and Hate Crime specialist, who has significant experience in working in criminal justice and community safety arena, with over 17 years of experience as a practitioner and training facilitator in the safeguarding and community safety area of work.

Mark has also lectured at universities across the midlands on the relationship between Hate Crime, its causes and effects, Far-Right Extremism, push and pull factors, propaganda, conspiracy theories and even how fashion can play a part in extremism.

Mark is often called upon to provide research data, and policy advice to multi-agency partners and enjoys developing training and policy materials around safeguarding, and extremism and has recently written training Exploitation and the online harms that adults face post lockdown.

During his work in Victim Support he was invited to join the ground breaking University of Leicester “Leicester Hate Crime Project” strategy and steering board for the life of the research project which published its research in September 2014.

During his work in extremism, Mark has written guidance for Early Years settings to assist they comply with the ‘Prevent Duty’ requirements. Mark has also written self-assessment toolkits for schools to use for authorities that are based in the West Midlands.

Mark is often called upon to provide research data and policy advice to multi-agency partners, and enjoys developing training and policy materials.

Mark is sometimes called on by journelists to provide insight into hate and extremsim.

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