Reports and Toolkits
Across the VRP we generate insights, learning and best practices, which includes briefings, evaluations, newsletters, and reports. Further to this, we have access to national resources, from guidance, delivery resources and toolkits, and national evaluations.
This section aims to share this information, both to aid our partners in their roles but also to drive wider awareness of the work we do for the public.
Our VRP Documents
The Avon and Somerset Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) Strategy is a legal requirement, as per the Serious Violence Duty. It outlines the VRP’s core strategic priorities, our commitments, and subsequent responses to these. The strategy is set for an annual period and is reviewed each year to update and ensure it is still fit for purpose. We do this by undertaking a strategic needs assessment which looks at various of sources of information and data across the partnership, this helps us to work to better understand serious violence and its root causes. We then use this evidence base to help us direct the strategy and response.
Each quarter the VRP hub creates the hub newsletter, featuring updates pan Avon and Somerset, individual spoke news and our quarterly statistics.
National Documents
Crime Reduction Toolkit
The College of Policing have created a summarised crime reduction toolkit using research evidence to establish what works to reduce crime. The crime reduction toolkit covers:
- the impact of different interventions on crime
- how and where interventions work
- how to implement the interventions and their cost
Click here to view their toolkit.
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Fearless.org
Fearless.org is the dedicated youth service of the independent charity CrimeStoppers. They provide young people with the opportunity to give information about crime 100% anonymously.
They also provide professionals who work with young people access to resources, covering the below topics:
- Child Financial Exploitation
- Child sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour
- County Lines
- Drugs and Alcohol
- Knife crime
- Snitching and the Bystander Approach
Fearless also have supporting posters you can order online and you can download their ‘What would you do’ playing cards. Each card has a different scenario and poses the question to young people what would they do in that situation.
Click here to access their resources.
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The National Youth Agency (NYA)
NYA exists to champion its transformative power. They believe all young people should have the opportunity to benefit from the life-changing impact of extraordinary youth workers and trained volunteers.
NYC help to grow youth work provision in ways that keep it effective, relevant, safe and engaging, to help millions of young people reach their potential and thrive. They do this by providing guidance, support, advice, training and staff development opportunities for youth workers and youth work organisations.
Below are just a few of their resources:
- Addressing unrest, disinformation and violence.
- Better together: Youth work with schools.
- Guidance for those working with young people following a traumatic community event.
Click here to access the NYA website.
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Young Minds
The UK’s leading charity fighting for a world where no young person feels alone with their mental health.
Young Minds Purpose is to stop young people’s mental health reaching crisis point.
They offer a variety of support and resources, below are a few links to resources:
Click here to access the Young Minds website
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Government
Multi-agency responses to serious youth violence:
working together to support and protect children
This latest report lookes at how local partnerships and services respond to children and their families when children are affected by serious youth violence. It takes into consideration the work of individual agencies as well as multi-agency working arrangements between children’s social care, health services, youth justice services (YJS), schools and the police.
This report sets out the findings from six joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) and was carried out between September 2023 and May 2024.
This JTAIs was carried out by Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMI Probation).
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Home Office
Violence Reducation Units
In 2019, the Home Office announced that 18 police force areas (PFAs) would receive funding to establish (or build upon existing) Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) as part of the Serious Violence Fund. In 2022, a further 2 PFAs received funding to establish VRUs. The aim of VRUs is to lead and coordinate a preventative, whole-system approach to violence reduction.
Preventing youth violence: practical advice for schools and colleges
While pupils and students generally see educational establishments as safe places, even low levels of youth violence can have a disproportionate impact on any educational establishment. Preventing violence in schools and colleges can require a mix of universal, targeted or specialist interventions. The below report has been created for those who work in education establishments.
The Youth Endowment Fund was established in March 2019 by children’s charity Impetus, with a £200m endowment and ten year mandate from the Home Office.
YEF Mission
We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
YEF Toolkit
The YEF toolkit is a free online resource that provides evidence of what works to prevent serious youth violence. The toolkit provides three rating:
1. An impact rating
This describes whether, on average, the approach has had a low, medium, high or harmful impact.
2. An evidence rating
The describes the confidence that we have in the research used to calculate the impact rating.
3. A cost rating
This gives a general indication of the cost of the approach, relative to other approaches in the Toolkit.
The Toolkit Technical Guide provides a full, technical description.
Children, Violence and Vulnerability Annual Report
The Youth Endownment Funds annual Children, Violence and Vulnerability survey was extended to include 10,000 children aged 13 to 17, with new areas of focus such as the impact of witnessing weapons online and the prevalence of violence within teenage relationships.
Their findings is claimed to be one of the most comprehensive analyses yet of children’s experiences of violence across England and Wales.
Questions
If you have any questions on any of these attachemnets, please use the below contact form.