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The 'Serious Violence Duty' was created by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. It requires specified authorities – local authorities, Police, Fire and Rescue Authorities, the Probation Service, Youth Offending Teams and Integrated Care Boards – to collaborate and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence.

Educational authorities (such as schools and colleges) and prison and youth custody authorities need to be consulted in the development of strategies and may be involved in their delivery. The Police and Crime Commissioner assists the specified authorities with implementing the duty and is responsible for monitoring progress.

Expand the grey sections below to learn how we are implementing the duty in the Humber area.

We work with the specified authorities for the serious violence duty and the four Humber Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) – East Riding, Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire – to deliver a co-ordinated approach across the Humberside Police force area.

Each year, the Humber VPP creates a Strategic Needs Assessment, setting out the drivers and extent of serious violence in the Humber area. Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) supplement this with annexes incorporating additional data and drawing out the key conclusions for their areas.

The Humber VPP has worked with Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) and other partners to develop a Response Strategy for serious violence. We have also agreed on a common definition of serious violence which can be read here.

As a result of the Serious Violence Duty, Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) have a statutory responsibility to prevent people from becoming involved in, and to reduce instances of, serious violence. CSPs are governed by boards made up of the specified authorities and other partner organisations. Our board leads the development of Humber-wide products and supports collaboration across the area.

Information sharing is a core part of the Serious Violence Duty. The Humber VPP is supplementing Community Safety Partnerships' (CSPs) existing information sharing agreements by mapping and facilitating access to additional data and supporting collaborative work on data analysis.

The Serious Violence Duty comes with a small amount of funding for staff costs and commissioning interventions, which has been allocated to Police and Crime Commissioners to distribute. In Humberside, the Humber VPP is managing this on behalf of partners.

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