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Violence Reduction Units, year ending March 2022 evaluation report

This report presents the findings of an evaluation of Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in their third year of Home Office funding

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This report presents findings of an evaluation of VRUs in their third year of Home Office funding. VRUs have been funded in 18 Police Force Areas (PFAs) since the year 2019 to 2020, primarily to provide leadership and strategic coordination of all relevant agencies to support a ‘whole system’ approach to tackling serious violence and its root causes.

This evaluation judges whether VRUs had an impact on Serious Violence in their first 3 years, and assessed their progress in relation to the different elements of the whole systems approach. It then makes recommendations to the Home Office and VRUs themselves to maximise the programmes impact.

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Published 31 January 2023
Last updated 2 February 2023 + show all updates
  1. Changes to the intervention spend figures within Table A.1 for Nottinghamshire and Kent of the report have been amended post-publication due to a counting error. These figures are now accurate.

  2. First published.

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