West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit - Useful links and resources

West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit Staff Structure
Staff Structure

Government strategy and guidance:
Serious Violence Strategy
Preventing Serious Violence: summary


Public health approach to violence:
Preventing serious violence: a multi-agency approach
Royal Society for Public Health - A public health approach to policing, crime and violence
Local Government Association – Public Health approaches to reducing violence
A statement from the UK Faculty of Public Health – The role of public health in the prevention of violence


Data sources, maps and reports:
Crest Advisory - Understanding what is driving serious violence: drugs
LG Inform – Improving services through information
NHS Digital
Public Health England – Violence Prevention: Risks and Outcomes
Children’s Commissioner – Children in families at risk – Local area maps
Office of National Statistics – Crime in England and Wales
Early Intervention Foundation
World Health Organisation – Violence Info
Alliance for Useful Evidence


Adverse Childhood Experiences:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Violence Prevention: Adverse Childhood Experiences
Early Intervention Foundation – Adverse childhood experiences


Youth Violence:
World Health Organisation – Preventing youth violence: an overview of evidence


Evidence base/what works:
Violence Prevention – Evidence Base
College of Policing – Vulnerability and violent crime programme