Plans & Strategies
On the 16 November 2023, we published our full Response Strategy. It was developed following discussions with our partners, communities and young people.
The document shows our objectives and multi-year actions, as well as details of how we will report on progress, review and evaluate the strategy.
In particular, it sets out:
- What we know so far about serious violence in the Humber area
- What we think we should focus on and why
- How we will work through a public health approach
- What we propose to do
This strategy aims to start conversations about how we prevent and reduce serious violence across the Humber. We want to know if the priorities we have developed are the right ones, and to hear ideas about how we can work with organisations and communities to deliver them.
Click here to review the Response Strategy.
If you would like more information, please email us at humbervpp@humberside.police.uk
Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) are required to have an overarching Theory of Change (ToC) in place. A ToC is a specific and measurable description of a social change that forms the basis for planning, ongoing decision-making and evaluation.
As part of developing our ToC with the University of Hull, we have considered 5 problem statements, which we consider to be the main drivers of the population involved in serious violence in the Humber region. The ToC, which can be found below, sets out the intended outcomes of our activity through inputs and activities.
The activities, which are the key elements of a whole-system approach, help the intended outputs. These in turn are anticipated to result in outcomes. Outcomes at the strategic and operational, and young people and community levels, facilitate the ultimate impacts of a sustainable whole-system approach, reduced violence, improved life outcomes for young people and communities feeling safe.
Download the Humber VPP ToC here.
This document is the Humber-wide Delivery Plan for preventing serious violence. Published annually, it summarises the additional multiagency actions being taken at the Humber level (i.e.: across multiple local authority areas) to apply the Humber Response Strategy.
The Delivery Plan should be read alongside the local delivery plans for East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire, which are led by the respective Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs), as well as individual organisations’ plans.
Click the links below to read our Delivery Plans:
The Humber Violence Prevention Partnership (VPP) is a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) funded by the Home Office to lead and co-ordinate the local response to serious violence, using an evidence-based whole-system or “public health” approach.
One of the Home Office’s primary expectations of VRUs is that they improve data sharing between partners in order to gain new insights and a more complete understanding of the drivers of serious violence and improve the targeting of support. Data sharing will also support the evaluation of the VPP’s interventions to maximise impact.
All people working in the Humber VPP – whether in the core team or in our partner organisations – need information every day in order to do their jobs. This strategy is for everyone involved in the VPP’s work and it outlines what we need to do to manage our information better.
Our latest Information Management Strategy can be read here.
