Background
The Humber Violence Prevention Partnership (VPP) is a multi-agency partnership committed to providing an evidence-led, public health approach to reducing serious violence across the region. To do that effectively, children and young people must be at the heart of our work - shaping, informing and driving the strategies and interventions that affect them.
To date, we have engaged young people through co-created campaigns, focus groups and initiatives such as Hope Hacks. While these efforts have been valuable, we recognise the need to go further to engage young people and embed youth voice meaningfully and consistently across our partnership.
We are aware that a wide range of youth voice and engagement activity already exists across the Humber region, with numerous groups and organisations actively engaging children and young people. We also recognise that significant work has already been done by these groups and young people to understand their perceptions of safety and violence in their communities and capturing their ideas to make things better. Young people have consistently told us they are frustrated with being repeatedly consulted without seeing meaningful change as a result.
This project aims to build on that foundation - avoiding duplication, valuing what has already been said and identifying how we can act on it more effectively.
As part of this work, we want to ensure that the voices we hear are truly representative. We are particularly keen to engage with care-experienced young people, individuals with neuro-diverse needs and those from underrepresented communities - including those with lived experience of violence and abuse.
Purpose of the Commission
We are seeking a provider to work with us, in the first instance to understand what youth engagement looks like and how youth voice is currently being captured across the Humber region.
We would then like to know what young people have already said in relation to serious youth violence, the ideas and suggestions they have for making this better, and – specifically for those who have already been involved in the youth justice system – what support they feel could have changed things for them or would help them in future.
This work will include young people and organisations from across all of the four Humber local authority areas: Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North and North East Lincolnshire.
Finally, we would like the young people, with support from the provider, to co-develop practical recommendations for how the Humber VPP can better engage with young people and how we can ensure that our work is always informed by youth voice and how we can take the wealth of advice provided by young people to improve our work.
Contract summary
- Value of contract: £25,000
- Closing date: 12 pm on 3 November 2025
- Contract start date: 10 November 2025
- Contract end date: 31 March 2026
The contract is suitable for SMEs and VCSEs.
More Information
Further information about the tender - including application details and terms and conditions - can be viewed on the UK Government's Contracts Finder website.
