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.
A summary report following an evidence and research review undertaken by the VPP, with a focus on mentoring NEET young people to support them to access education, employment and training. Presenting key themes for promising practice and those areas that are less effective.
This evaluation report presents analysis and key findings from the first full academic year delivery of a randomised control trial experiment which measured the impact of a Schools Navigator mentoring intervention.
In October 2024, we published an evaluation of the Focused Deterrence intervention project, presenting key findings from the first 12 months of a randomised control trial impact experiment.
Too often, an intervention is developed without consideration […]
In July 2024, we published an evaluation of the Hospital Navigator scheme undertaken by Oxford Brookes University.