The Delivery Plan is framed around the five pillars of our current Response Strategy:
- Earlier prevention and intervention
- Diversion and support
- Community capacity and leadership
- System leadership
- Improved use of data and evidence
Keep reading to discover some of the new actions for the year.
Earlier Prevention and Intervention
Aim: To improve awareness and understanding of serious violence and how it can be prevented; to intervene at the earliest opportunity to address the risk of future violence.
Examples of New Actions:
- Pilot the use of photovoice methodology to better understand children’s views of their communities.
- Scope potential to proactively provide support to children with family members in prison.
- Deliver targeted problem-solving activity in knife crime hotspots through the Knife Crime Concentrations Fund.
Diversion and Support
Aim: To divert and support people away from serious violence and to prevent it reoccurring.
Examples of New Actions:
- Explore how Pol-Ed could support diversionary intervention activities.
- Work with intervention providers and partners to improve referral processes and measurement.
- Explore opportunities for adopting restorative justice principles in relevant interventions.
Community Capacity and Leadership
Aim: To encourage meaningful co-production and strengthen community capacity to respond to serious violence.
Examples of New Actions:
- Continue to pilot and evaluate how Hope Hacks can be used across a wider range of settings.
- Share the findings of the youth voice mapping and synthesis commission with partners.
- Work with community organisations to coproduce and mobilise a broader violence prevention alliance.
System Leadership
Aim: For organisations to collaborate effectively to prevent serious violence.
Examples of New Actions:
- Refresh the Humber Response Strategy.
- Strengthen and evolve the ‘Ending VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) Board’ to drive a public health approach to VAWG.
- Collate and share resources to support schools to become trauma-informed through the Education Partnership.
Improved Use of Data and Evidence
Aim: To improve the use of data and evidence to inform the response to serious violence across the system.
Examples of New Actions:
- Conduct an impact evaluation of the effects of primary interventions on crime and anti-social behaviour.
- Further expand data sharing in support of the Young Futures Panel pilot and Strategic Needs Assessment.
- Create and publish a core indicators dashboard reflecting serious violence trends.
More Information
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