Resources and Guidance - West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership

The Violence Reduction Unit strives to support practitioners, experts and service users. Below you will find resources and guidance relating to the sport sector. Our experts hope you find the information useful in helping to tackle violence:

Covid-19

Much guidance has been produced to support the Sport and Physical Activity sector both regionally and nationally. Links to key information and guidance can be found below. The West Midlands Violence Reduction Unit encourages all providers to remain up to date on guidance released from Sport England and other national and regional organisations to ensure safety measures are met and our communities are supported safely.

Sport England – https://www.sportengland.org/how-we-can-help/coronavirus
StreetGames UK – https://network.streetgames.org/return-sport-activity
Sport Birmingham – https://www.sportbirmingham.org/coronavirus-update
Active Black Country – https://www.activeblackcountry.co.uk/covid19/
Think Active – http://www.thinkactive.org/wethinkactive/#covid
UK Active – https://www.ukactive.com/covid-19/

Resources have been developed nationally to support Youth organisations through the coronavirus pandemic. Key links have been presented below;

UK Youth – https://www.ukyouth.org/covid-19/
National Youth Agency – https://nya.org.uk/reacting-to-covid-19-advice-to-youth-services/

Existing Research, Evaluations and Insight Documents

To support practitioners across the West Midlands, a centralised bank of resources has been collated;