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West Midlands Violence Prevention Alliance

October 2015 Update

The Alliance launched


back in June 2015 with an
event bringing together
partners in commitment
to taking a public health
approach
to
violence
prevention.
This
is
described
in
the
Department of Healths
2012 Protecting People,
Promoting Health report:

Many of the key risk factors that make individuals,


families or communities vulnerable to violence are
changeable,
including
exposure
to
adverse
experiences in childhood and subsequently the
environments in which individuals live, learn and work
throughout youth, adulthood and older age.
Understanding these factors means we can develop
and adopt new public health based approaches to
violence. Such approaches focus on the primary
prevention of violence through reducing risk factors
and promoting protective factors over the life course.

A large part of Alliance work is promoting, influencing and supporting partners in


embedding a public health approach, and implementing interventions with an evidence
base, as well as continuing to contribute to the evidence base through proper research
and evaluation see http://violencepreventionalliance.org/ and follow us on Twitter
@WestMidlandsVPA If youre interested in finding out more about any of the things
were doing, or are interested in getting involved, please get in touch!
Rachel@violencepreventionalliance.org
A question for us all is how can I champion preventative work and work with
my partners as a system?

So, what are some of the things weve been up to over the summer?

World
Health
Organization
membership
We attended the annual WHO meeting
of international Violence Prevention
Alliances the 7th Milestones of a Global
Campaign for Violence Prevention
Meeting. There was a great deal of
interest in the work happening in West
Midlands. This has led to some
promising partnerships, particularly with
colleagues at the Centre for Public
Health.

Injury Surveillance System


PHEs
national
Field
Epidemiology
Service are hosting this new work,
building
an
enhanced
Injury
Surveillance system in line with the
evidence
from the Cardiff Model of
analysing A&E and police data to
improve our understanding of violence
and
therefore
improve
partner
responses. The system aims to scale up
over time, looking to test other data
sets.
Mentors in Violence Prevention
scheme
Well soon be working with a number of
schools to pilot and evaluate locally the
highly acclaimed MVP programme,
which is being widely implemented
across Scotland. The approach is highly
engaging, using a bystander approach,
incorporating peer mentorship and
encouraging young people to see
themselves as leaders and active
citizens. See http://mvpscotland.org.uk/
for more info

Local Violence Needs Assessments


Were working with police and public
health colleagues in our local authority
areas to produce a violence needs
assessment for their area, building on
the regional violence profile which kick
started the Alliance. These will show us
the needs in each area and look at
opportunities to work in partnership.
WMP and ambulance data pilot
Supported by a successful Police
Innovation Fund bid West Midlands
Police, alongside Cambridgeshire Police,
Metropolitan Police Service (London),
Cambridge
University
and
the
respective Ambulance Services, are
beginning a pilot project to draw
together police and ambulance data for
analysis. The analysis will test how
effectively Ambulance data can be used
to enrich our understanding of violence,

particularly violence seen by the


Ambulance Services which isnt reported
to the police or other services.
Regional
Domestic
Violence
Perpetrator Programme
Were beginning work with the PCCs
office, community safety partnerships
and partners to scope options for a
service specification for a programme to
be commissioned and accessible across
the region.

Other developing work includes working


with the Police & Crime Commissioners
Victims Commission to support them in
commissioning effective services for
victims; working with University Hospital
Birmingham Trust on the development
of the VRN (Violence Reduction Nurse)
role and to develop the Trusts
preventative work around violence; and
commissioning
action
research
to
improve WMPs frontline response to
violence.

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