With the pre-election period and its restrictions now over, the VPP has published three new reports summarising progress and activity for the year ahead.
Jules Bottazzi, Head of the Thames Valley Violence Prevention Partnership has received Public Protection & Safeguarding Programme accreditation.
Leading knife crime charity The Ben Kinsella Trust is offering free online training for parents/carers/families.
Stay True to You safety campaign launches offering free resources and training to keep young people safe.
A webinar was held for all partners and stakeholders to introduce the new Stay True to You campaign. Video now available.
Over 200 school children from 20 schools across Buckinghamshire participated in the “Youth Voices Bucks” youth summit on Thursday 23 February.
Oxford Brookes University has been commissioned by the […]
The VRU’s Trauma Informed Practice Special Interest Group (SIG) met yesterday, bringing together professionals who are engaged in or working toward improving trauma informed practice.
Marking the Day of Hope 2022, we look back on hosting the very first Hope Hack event in March earlier this year.
Young people from across Oxfordshire took part in the first data ethics deliberative forum, helping to shape the way the police use data to prevent violence.
On a visit to the Thames Valley yesterday (31 August), the Prime Minster Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel were given a demonstration of new technology developed by the Violence Reduction Unit to support policing of violence hotspots.
Officers and staff from the Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) have launched a week of problem-solving activity focused on tackling hotspots for violence in two areas of Oxford and Slough. Operation Pacation – defined as ‘the act of making peace’ – involves a range of partners working together to identify and solve problems to make a local area safer.