For 2025/2026, the VPP is prioritising the support to our local partnerships to help them establish Prevention Partnerships and to create local models and services to support those most at risk of being drawn into crime and violence. Our funding of interventions is now focused on two models, with funding passed to local partnerships who will lead on coordination, commissioning and delivery.
We will utilise Home Office funding to support all nine local areas establish a local Focused Diversion approach.
In the five geographic areas of our region with the highest levels of serious violence, we will utilise Home Office funding to support the establishment of a new Focused Deterrence programme, in partnership with Thames Valley Police.
Previous intervention projects – ending 31 March 2025
Between April 2021 and March 2025, we delivered a three-year funded programme of centrally commissioned and evaluated interventions, in line with the High Impact interventions described in the Youth Endowment Fund Toolkit.
The VPP’s funding of these interventions has now ceased from 1 April 2025.
However, all were evaluated and have provided learning that informs our local partners and our own approaches with both Focused Diversion and Focused Deterrence for the year ahead.
In some instances, local partners have committed to sustaining the delivery of these interventions themselves.
