The evaluation will advance our understanding of the impact of the mentoring provision, improving monitoring and delivery of this ongoing project. 

Established in 2019, the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) works with specialists from health, police, local authorities, education, youth justice, prisons, probation, community groups, and more. Together, the services identify reasons why people might be involved in violence take a fundamentally different ‘public health’ approach, which places emphasis on prevention rather than cure. They assess the risks involved and work with communities to prevent it from happening, in order to make West Yorkshire safer for all.

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It would also assist with understanding how the VRP is tracking against the three Home Office mandated key success measures, which are as follows:

1.  A reduction in hospital admissions for assaults with a knife or sharp object and especially among those victims aged under 25.
2. A reduction in knife-enabled serious violence and especially among those victims aged under 25.
3. A reduction in all non-domestic homicides and especially among those victims aged under 25 involving knives.

This project is a collaboration with the Workforce Trust