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  • Violence Reduction Unit (1)

    • Reference: 2023/2061
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    Can you please tell me, and evidence, how many projects have been jointly funded by the Public Health Unit and Violence Reduction Unit?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (2)

    • Reference: 2023/2062
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    Can you please evidence with data which crime figures have been reduced thanks to the VRU?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (3)

    • Reference: 2023/2063
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    A retrospective study of a Glasgow Emergency Department showed that following an intervention from the Navigator team (provided by Strathclyde VRU) attendance rates dropped by 24%, compared to a control group whose attendance rate increased by 15%. Are we seeing similar numbers in London?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (4)

    • Reference: 2023/2064
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    What percentage of the VRU budget has been spent on trauma enforced approaches in the last year?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (5)

    • Reference: 2023/2065
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    Can you evidence whether the work of London’s VRU has resulted in fewer exclusions as was the case in Lancashire?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (6)

    • Reference: 2023/2066
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    The TIP (Trauma-informed practice) project 2021 end of year report makes for interesting reading and claims to have prevented exclusions. How can you prove that?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (7)

    • Reference: 2023/2067
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    The VRU invested £200,000 to deliver sports activities in the Easter 2023 holidays for up to 1,000 young people. This funding is intended to build on previous work. How were the initial 60 grassroots groups chosen to develop this scheme?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (8)

    • Reference: 2023/2068
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    There was approval for £1,150,000 of Violence Reduction Unit Funding to support the needs of girls and young women in 2021. How much of that money has been spent and what specific positive outcomes have been achieved?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (9)

    • Reference: 2023/2069
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    2020 TIP (Trauma-informed practice) research found that the specific needs of women and girls in the context of community violence have been side-lined by male-focused interventions, leading to an absence of long-term girls’ projects, peer-to-peer support and parent groups for engaging families affected by trauma. Given we are now in 2023 do you believe you have done enough to rectify this?

  • Violence Reduction Unit (10)

    • Reference: 2023/2070
    • Question by: Emma Best
    • Meeting date: 22 June 2023
    Will the VRU and Public Health Unit look at a cost benefit analysis after each project and assess whether that funding could be better spent running projects through other public bodies such as MOPAC which are more established?