National Context: Overview
Efforts to tackle arson effectively contribute directly to two of the key departmental
aims of the Home Office. These aims are:
‘The reduction of crime, particularly juvenile crime; and
‘The reductions in the incidence of fire and related death, injury and damage.
Combating arson also supports the Home Office agenda on social exclusion – those
on the lowest incomes suffering rates of arson fires thirty-one times higher than
elsewhere and being sixteen times more likely to die as a result of a fire.
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