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David Wakelin Violence Reduction Unit Director #stopviolence
David Wakelin
Violence Reduction Unit
Director
#stopviolence
LGA CONFERENCE
6 February 2020
Nottinghamshire Violence Reduction Unit
Strategic Board
Police and Crime Commissioner (Chair)
Major Trauma Surgeon Nottingham University Hospitals
(Vice Chair)
Chief Constable, Nottinghamshire Police
Director of Public Health, County Council
Director of Public Health, City Council
Corporate Director, Children’s, Families and Cultural
Services, County Council
Corporate Director of Children and Families, City Council
Accountable Officer, Nottinghamshire CCG
Centre Director, Public Health England East Midlands
Chief Executive – Nottingham College
Chief Executive – Vision West Notts College
Chief Executive – East Midlands Ambulance Service
Governor – HMP Nottingham
‘Our set-up’
‘Dependent on existing multi-agency arrangements’
Strategic Board
Citizens Advisory Panel
Stakeholder Reference Group
Ambassadors in Communities
The VRU Visionprevention is the objective
‘never too early, never too late’
‘Working with communities to prevent violence and reduce its harmful impacts through developing a detailed
understanding of its causes and investment in evidence based
interventions that make a lasting difference’
‘ACE Aware & Trauma Informed Nottinghamshire’
Readiness Assessment
Routine Enquiry about Adversity in Childhood
Builds on Nottinghamshire County & City Council’s current
programmes
Led by Dr Warren Larkin, Clinical Psychologist
Neighbourhood Policing & School Early Intervention
Officers Integrated Offender Team
Public Protection
Commitment to train thirds sector
providers, schools & colleges
Contextual Safeguarding ‘the context in which children & young people live their lives makes
them exposed to increased risk than ever before’
Mentors in Violence Prevention
Piloted in 8 Schools in
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Builds on Scottish / US model,
currently operating in 21 Scottish
Local Authorities in over 100
schools
Empowers students to safely speak out against all forms of
violence
Challenging bullying and abuse, building
relationships and creating partnerships between schools and
communities
Utilises the
power of the
role-model,
peer to peer
approach
Train the
trainer model
to ensure
sustainability
Creative intervention
enabling pupils to explore feelings around violence
and safety
Mentoring by writers, poets,
song writers and journalists that
young people can relate to
Reducing risk around poor self esteem, mental
health issues and isolation
Primary schools and YOT
Cohorts in City and County
‘My Voice’
Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
6 month pilot with evaluation
One to one and group work with young people
exposed to weapon enabled DV
Supports understanding of a
healthy relationship;
manage experience of
exposure to abuse
Trauma informed
approach to work
with children and
young people
living with
domestic abuse
Choices Project
Group and one-to-
one, creative
activities that enable
the young men to
recognise their choice
and responsibilities
over their own
behaviour
Key focus on
preventing violence
against women and
girls
To change attitudes and
reduce the social
acceptability of violence
Select group of young men
identified as vulnerable to gang
involvement, knife crime and
associated abuse
To be delivered within
schools and/or
alternative provisions
Evaluation of targeted outreach work‘ Violence Interrupter Model ’
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
#droptheknife
Evaluation by Nottingham Trent
University
Trusted community based youth
workers
Chicago Cure Violence Model
works in a similar way
Stopping the transmission of
violence
Mentoring and Maslow's
Hierarchy fixing.
Tackle the underlying issues.
Focuses on treatment and
behaviour change, rather than
punishment.
Help for their families.
Helping get established and
supported.
Police Custody Intervention for those
adults furthest away from ETE.
Prison Interventions
ETE Pathways from Prison to
be explored
Address the issues of
knife and violent crime
in young people by
working with a cohort of
young men aged 18-25
both within custody, at
HMP NottinghamPsychological method
through coaching and
workshops - aim to build on
the persons own resources to
run their lives while attending
to challenges
Ensure the cohort are
linked into the non-
stat IOM cohort to
ensure support and
management beyond
the life of the
intervention
VRU Community Fund£350,000
✓ Interventions must be population focussed
✓ Interventions must target the causes of the causes
✓ A focus on prevention
✓ Emphasising the importance of data,
evidence and outcomes
✓ Partnerships, communities and systems
Grant Criteria:
• We are committed to working in partnership with
our communities to collaborate and co-produce
solutions. Our partnership will be based on
restorative and asset-based approaches.
• We believe that intervening early to prevent issues
emerging is the most effective way to ensure
children, young people, families and communities in
Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County
thrive.
• Our work will be underpinned by evidence of what
works.
VRU Principles
Defining a PH approach
• In implementing the public health approach, local areas should adopt the World Health Organisation’s definition:
• Focused on a defined population;
• With and for communities;
• Not constrained by organisational or professional boundaries;
• Focussed on generating long term as well as short term solutions;
• Based on data and intelligence to identify the burden on the population, including any inequalities;
• Rooted in evidence of effectiveness to tackle the problem.
• Local areas are expected to take the advice of Public Health England (and their equivalent in Wales) when determining how they will apply the public health approach in delivering VRU functions.
High Quality Public Health Systems• Recent guidance- Quality in public health: a shared
responsibility, published March 2019, PHE*.
• Shared goals focused on reducing inequalities;
• Asset-based approaches, co-produced with communities;
• Early intervention, life-course approach;
• Measurement of performance, transparency, accountability.
*https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/quality-in-public-health-a-shared-responsibility
WHO Violence Prevention Alliance approach
1) Surveillance
What is the problem?
4) Implementation
Scaling up effective policy and
programmes
3) Develop and evaluate interventions
What works and for whom?
2) Identify risk and protective factors
What are the causes?
https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/public_health/en/
