Research & Analysis

Strategic Needs Assessment

Data is at the heart of everything we do. And our Strategic Needs Assessment (SNA) helps us translate data into insights.

The SNA is a useful report that includes analytical activities carried out by our partnership. We use the SNA to understand serious violence in the Humber region.

It is a Home Office requirement for all Violence Reduction Units and provides the evidence base for shaping our response strategy and commissioning interventions.

The data aims to identify the following:

• Priority crime type(s)
• Driver(s) of Serious Violence
• Risk factor(s)
• People at risk
• Hotspot location(s) and hot-times

You can read our SNA documents by clicking the links below. For an overview of our latest SNA, you can also watch the below video.

2024/25 SNA documents:

• 2024/2025 Strategic Needs Assessment: Public Summary

2022/2023 SNA documents:

• 2022/2023 Strategic Needs Assessment: Public Summary
• 2022/2023 Strategic Needs Assessment: Overview of the Humber Region
• 2022/2023 Strategic Needs Assessment: The Costs of Serious Violence in the Humber Region
• 2022/2023 Strategic Needs Assessment: Risk and Protective Factors of Violence Prevention
• 2022/2023 Strategic Needs Assessment: Overview of the Humber Hope Hacks
• Vulnerability, Offending and the Experiences of Services in Humberside: The Voices of Those with Lived Experience (Crest Advisory Report)

Focus Group Consultancy

The Humber Learning Consortium (HLC), in conjunction with the Humber Violence Prevention Partnership (VPP), has conducted a series of focus groups with a diverse range of young people from hotspot areas across the Humber sub-region. The areas were identified using data from our Strategic Needs Assessment (SNA).

These sessions aimed to identify young people’s perspectives about violent crime in their localities, asking questions such as:

• How safe do young people feel and the reasons why.
• How young people feel about their local area and community, including the support, activities, and facilities available to them.
• How young people feel about their future, their hopes, fears and what change they want to see.

Building on recent research by the Youth Endowment Fund, the HLC worked with the Humber VPP to build a more nuanced understanding of what it’s like for young people to be living in different parts of our area, recognising that not every place or young person is the same.

The full report - including an executive summary, an outline of the methodology and a summary of the findings - can be found here.

The Cost of Serious Violence

The cost of serious violence aims to provide an overview of the financial costs associated with serious violence in the Humber region. 

These costs can be split into two areas

• Direct costs incurred by public sector organisations like the Criminal Justice System, Police, NHS, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside
• Indirect costs by attributing a value to the reduced economic output resulting from being a victim of serious violence.

The cost in these products have been calculated using the below, methodologies:

• ‘The economic and social costs of crime’ (Heeks et al. 2018), created by the Home Office.
• The Economic and Social Costs of Violence on Merseyside (Bates et al. 2021), created by the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University, for the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership.

For more information, click here.