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The Violence Reduction Unit strives to support practitioners, experts and service users. Below you will find resources and guidance relating to the health sector. Our experts hope you find the information useful in helping to tackle violence:
Public Health England; Collaborative Approaches to Prevent Offending and Re-offending in Children (CAPRICORN)

This resource outlines how health, education, social care, criminal justice, voluntary sector services and others can work together to stop children and young people offending.

Download Public Health England; Collaborative Approaches to Prevent Offending and Re-offending in Children (CAPRICORN)
Public Health England: Preventing serious violence: a multi-agency approach

A resource for local partners to help them take a public health approach and work together to prevent serious violence.

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College of Policing: Public Health Approach to Policing

Public health approaches in policing support the Policing Vision 2025, which talks about proactive preventative activity, working with partners to problem-solve, vulnerability, cohesive communities, improving data sharing, evidence-based practice and whole- system approaches

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WHO School-based violence prevention: a practical handbook

School-based violence prevention: a practical handbook, is about schools, education and violence prevention. It provides guidance for school officials and education authorities on how schools can embed violence prevention within their routine activities and across the points of interaction schools provide with children, parents and other community members.

Download WHO School-based violence prevention: a practical handbook
Scottish Public Health Network (ScotPHN) ‘Polishing the Diamonds’ Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Scotland

A good overview of ACES

Download Scottish Public Health Network (ScotPHN) ‘Polishing the Diamonds’ Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Scotland
Center for Disease Control: Technical Package Youth Violence

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent youth violence and its consequences.

Download Center for Disease Control: Technical Package Youth Violence
Center for Disease Control: Technical Package to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence

This document highlights strategies based on the best available evidence to help states and communities prevent intimate partner violence, support survivors, and lessen the short and long-term harms of intimate partner violence.

Download Center for Disease Control: Technical Package to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence
Early Intervention Foundation: What works to prevent gang involvement, youth violence and crime: A rapid review of interventions delivered in the UK and abroad

This report provides a brief overview of the international literature on effective and ineffective approaches aiming to prevent gang involvement and youth violence.

Download Early Intervention Foundation: What works to prevent gang involvement, youth violence and crime: A rapid review of interventions delivered in the UK and abroad

WHO – Resources on Violence prevention
https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/en/

Addressing adversity
Evidence, insight and case studies from leading experts, clinicians, commissioners and frontline professionals to raise awareness about the impact of adversity and trauma on the mental health of young people.
https://youngminds.org.uk/resources/policy-reports/addressing-adversity-book/

Center for Disease Control: A range of resources on violence prevention https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/index.html

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