I am a Parent
This page is designed to provide a range of resources and links to help provide you with helpful information relating to some of the risks facing children and young people, and how to help mitigate against them.
You can also watch the recording of our webinar for parents here [link coming soon!]
This page from the NSPCC provides a great guide for talking to your child about difficult topics.
Creating time & space to talk with children about challenging issues is really important in helping parents understand the views, questions and concerns which children have on key issues in the community. The NSPCC also has a range of broader resources to support parents and carers, and Young Minds has a range of great resources covering things like being a good listener, and talking to young people about mental health.
Download our support guides here:
Exploitation
Online Safety
Healthy Relationships
Tackling Violence
There are a range of positive activities for children to participate in across our communities, whether sports clubs, youth clubs, drama groups. Below are good places to look for information on activities available for children in your local area
Positive Activities for young people
Directories of support services by area
Relaunch of the West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership Provider Pool – 2026-2027
The West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership (WM VRP) introduced the Prevention Pilot Pool in 2025-2026 to support the delivery of a pilot education project to test the impact of long-term prevention planning in education.
The Prevention Pilot Pool enabled the VRP to have direct access to 80 providers and over 200 interventions all of which were subject to appropriate due diligence and safeguarding checks. The pilot ended in March 2026.
The VRP re-launched the Prevention Pilot Pool, rebranded as the VRP Provider Pool on 14th September 2026. The Provider Pool will continue to be used to support work in education, however it will also be used to support other projects and programmes across the VRP portfolio, including:
- Habitual Knife Carriers
- Response work in communities
- Other project requiring local interventions and support
A breakdown of the thematic/project types is detailed in the Service Specification here.
The WM VRP invites organisations to submit applications to be in the Provider Pool. All applications will be subject to robust due diligence and safeguarding checks in order to ensure the pool provides access to a range of high quality, evidence-based interventions to support children and young people under-25 across the region.
How to apply:
Applications should be made via our online form.
As part of the application, providers must submit an “Intervention Information Form” as attached below. Any applications submitted which do not use the online form will not be accepted. Applications will be reviewed and scored by an internal panel. Subject to successful safeguarding, due diligence checks, and panel scoring, providers will be onboarded to the pool.
The application process will remain open via our website until March 2027. The VRP will review and respond to applications regularly throughout the year. Applicants should allow sufficient time for their application to be considered, and due diligence checks to be completed. The VRP aim to have reviewed each application one month after submission.
By joining the VRP Provider Pool, providers understand there is no guarantee that they will be commissioned.
If you have any queries, please email [email protected]
All papers you may need can also be found here:
01. Service Specification and Application open Prevention Pool FINAL
