The recordings of three VPP What Works webinars are now available to watch online, sharing recent intervention evaluations and research. Each webinar accompanies a full report and presentation slide deck.
Established in 2019 and funded by the Home Office, our aim is to reduce the number of people affected by Serious Violence across the Thames Valley, working with our communities.
We are a partnership body supported by a small central programme team, which is hosted within the Office of the Police & Crime Commissioner. We bring together representation from policing, local authority community safety, children’s services and social care, prisons and probation, education, youth offending and the voluntary and community sector.
Areas we cover
Our partnership covers the large and diverse Thames Valley area. Through our core programme team, we provide strategic leadership, coordination and training and support the local response to Serious Violence under the umbrella of the Serious Violence Duty.
We work with nine separate local partnerships which are consistent with the upper-tier local authority boundaries, covering all of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
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What we do
Our central team oversees activity structured under the following strands:
Latest news
The recordings of three VPP What Works webinars are now available to watch online, sharing recent intervention evaluations and research. Each webinar accompanies a full report and presentation slide deck.
An inspiring new art work has been created and installed at The Langley Academy school in Slough, part of a new initiative being offered to secondary schools in the town aiming to promote safety and prevent knife crime.
Parents across the Thames Valley are being offered free, online information sessions to raise awareness of the risks of knife crime and help them to support their children to stay safe.
The Thames Valley Violence Prevention Partnership is hosting three open-to-all and free to access online webinars which will share the key findings, learning and next steps from recent VPP intervention evaluations and research activity.
The VPP has recently completed a review of available academic literature to gather evidence on what works and what is ineffective when implementing and delivering mentoring approaches with young people to help them engage with education, employment and training.