Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit
Addressing the underlying causes of violence and working
together with communities to prevent it.
Addressing the underlying causes of violence and working
together with communities to prevent it.
Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) is a team of subject leads and experts from Greater Manchester Police (GMP), Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Greater Manchester National Probation Service, Public Health, NHS, Education, Community Voluntary Sector, Victim’s Voice, Youth Justice and Local Authorities, addressing the underlying causes of violence and working together with communities to prevent it.
Under the direct governance and oversight of the Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Combined Authority plays host to the VRU.
The Greater than Violence strategy commits to working together with individuals and communities to understand their strengths, challenges, and ideas to tackle violence.
Led by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester, the Greater than Violence Strategy will work to improve lives by preventing violence, supporting victims, families and communities affected, and providing positive opportunities to those at risk of becoming victims, witnesses, or perpetrators, including education programmes, community sports, targeted mentoring, opportunities to develop new skills and therapeutic support.
The strategy is founded on two pillars: preventing violence from happening and responding swiftly and appropriately when it occurs.
The community-led approach to violence reduction, means the VRU works closely with communities to understand the strengths, challenges, and needs of the community and determine how local investments will be made.
Several boroughs across the city-region have received funding from the VRU as part of its investment in community-led programmes, outlined in Greater Manchester’s Serious Violence Action Plan.
“The key objective is to ensure we take a public health approach, working collaboratively and in partnership where we come together and our policies are strongly aligned. We’ll be looking at our trends, information and evidence to find solutions collaboratively with our partners” – Helen Lowey.
Hope Hack
Young people from across Greater Manchester have shared their views, thoughts, and ideas on how to make the city region a safer and fairer place for all.
Navigator Project
The Greater Manchester Navigator Project is a youth-focused, violence reduction project based in four Greater Manchester hospitals.
The Social Switch Project
The Social Switch Project is switching the narrative on how social media’s relationship to youth violence is understood, tackled and solved.
Speaking Out Could Save a Life
Greater Manchester comes together to stop knife crime and serious violence.
VRU and StreetGames collaborate on community sport interventions
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