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.
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 central programme team. 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 a programme of activity structured under the following strands:
Latest news
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.
A new evaluation report on an intervention to reduce school exclusions has been published, showing positive results with fewer suspensions and improved health and wellbeing scores for students.
A new evaluation of an innovative youth intervention called Focused Deterrence show very positive impact on levels of knife crime and the severity of offending.