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Xaverian College host Greater Manchester Colleges’ Safety Roadshow
This week, Xaverian College hosted the Greater Manchester Colleges’ Safety Roadshow, to promote a range of support services available within the local area to students. The Roadshow, which was first introduced in February 2022, aims to address the underlying causes of violence, and work together with communities to prevent it. Throughout the day, students had […]
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VRU holds criminal justice learning event to highlight emerging best practise and innovation
The online event highlighted emerging best practise and innovation from criminal justice projects across Greater Manchester. The event aimed to enable participants to understand links between violence and childhood experiences, understand the value of lived experience mentoring to rehabilitate and reduce levels of violence, and understand how a trauma responsive approach identifies children and young […]
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Late last year, a pilot of the Social Switch Project – a multi-layered social media education programme that aims to build the digital resilience and literacy of young people, and the trusted adults around them, to reduce the chances of online risks becoming online/offline violence-related harms – was ran in four schools in Salford. Funded […]
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Professionals and community representatives from across Greater Manchester have vowed to tackle knife-crime and serious violence at a roundtable event hosted by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham. Chaired by Nazir Afzal, former Chief Crown Prosecutor, the event held today (Friday 1 April) is part of an ongoing commitment to work in partnership with […]
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Greater Manchester’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has been allocated funding for the next three years, subject to a successful application, which will enable the pioneering initiative to continue to prevent violence in the city-region. The Government has today (Friday 1 April) announced a provisional amount of £5.86m for the year 2022/23, £4.3m for year two […]
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Young role models from the ‘I am greater’ campaign, continue to inspire
18-year-old Naomi Kalu from Oldham Boxing Club featured in the first phase of the Violence Reduction Units ‘I am greater’ campaign. The campaign, launched in May 2021, was developed with young people from across Greater Manchester and shows why young people are greater than violence. Young people shared their stories in a series of powerful […]
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Media Cubs mini reporters host Mastermind interview with VRU Director, Damian Dallimore
Last year we joined forces with young reporters from Media Cubs pop-up TV studio and newsroom to give them the opportunity to ask big questions to members of our team. Young reporters from age seven up to 18 have been busy in the newsroom and already conducted interviews with Bev Hughes, Greater Manchester’s Deputy Mayor for Policing, […]
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Odd Arts create short film to be used as preventative tool for young people
Through the VRU funded Central Manchester Peace Together Alliance, Odd Arts, a charity that delivers theatre-based programmes that challenge and change attitudes and behaviours and enable people to understand themselves and the world differently, have delivered three projects over a seven-month period designed to encourage reduction in violence in local communities. Young people were given […]
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The VRU works with CLI to support young people transitioning from youth justice to probation
Community Led Initiatives (CLI) was formed in 2013 by two people who had transformed their own lives and wanted to help others through the power of peer mentoring in the community. Through mentoring, group activities, community building and co-production, CLI remove barriers to community inclusion for people who are socially excluded, facing complex issues such […]
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