🚔 Funding boost to tackle and prevent serious violence

Hi Resident,

Matthew Barber (Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley) has awarded £1.8m of Home Office funding to local partners to help tackle serious violence in the Thames Valley.

Serious violence and knife enabled crime is falling in the Thames Valley, but further work is taking place to prevent it. The funding, made up of two grants, the Serious Violence Duty Grant and the Violence Reduction Unit Grant will be administered by the PCC to local partners to support Thames Valley communities.

Matthew said: “There is no single solution to preventing serious violence.  Its impact on individuals and communities can be devastating and we continue to work collaboratively as part of the Violence Prevention Partnership to try to address root causes and support those most at risk.  The funding awarded to partners across the Thames Valley aims to deliver against our shared goal to reduce violence in our communities and stop our young people being drawn into offending.

“Funding will extend the delivery of some existing projects as well as test new approaches. I am pleased that the majority of councils have accepted funding to implement new Focused Diversion activity for young people in their areas, the output and learning from which will be shared across the Thames Valley to help inform future activity.”

For further details on the funding announcement, please visit our website: https://www.thamesvalley-pcc.gov.uk/news/funding-boost-to-tackle-prevent-serious-violence/