Violence Reduction Units year ending March 2024 evaluation report
This report presents the findings of an evaluation of Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in their fifth year of Home Office funding.
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This report presents findings of an evaluation of VRUs in their fifth year of Home Office funding. VRUs have been funded in 18 Police Force Areas (PFAs) since the year 2019 to 2020, and in 2 additional PFAs since the year 2022 to 2023, primarily to provide leadership and strategic coordination of all relevant agencies to support a 바카라 사이트˜whole system바카라 사이트™ approach to tackling serious violence and its root causes.
This evaluation judges whether VRUs had an impact on Serious Violence in their first 5 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 programme바카라 사이트™s impact.