Knife Angel arrives in Southend
On Monday 1 July representatives from the Violence and Vulnerability Unit visited Southend for the opening ceremony of the Knife Angel – the 27-foot national monument against violence and aggression. The Knife Angel was unveiled in a special ceremony at Victoria Circus which bought together safety partners from across the county, highlighting unity against violent […]
ECVYS launch “We Love Youth Work”
Last night we joined with partners at ECVYS AGM (Essex Council of Voluntary Youth Services) to celebrate their 50th anniversary. ECVYS held their AGM at Layer Marney Tower which also included a celebration of the last 50 years supporting Essex voluntary youth organisations and the launch of their We Love Youth Work campaign. We Love […]
Evaluation and good practice
The VVU recently attended an evaluation workshop to explore how we can further improve our practice, and continually improve our collection of meaningful data to measure the impact of our work. Evaluation is critical to the VVU for many reasons, it helps us understand where we are making impact, it allows us to build on […]
Amazing week of engagement to address knife crime
We are pleased to report on the activity some of our funded projects and interventions took part in to raise awareness of the dangers of knife crime during Sceptre – the national knife crime intensification week held in May. The week is an opportunity to amplify the activity which takes place across the year to […]
Sceptre: week of action on knife crime
This week (13 – 19 May) is the National Knife Crime Intensification Week – known as Sceptre – a week of activity across all Police Forces to amplify and showcase the work being done across the country to drive down knife crime. Essex continues to see a 7% reduction in knife enabled reported offences (year […]
Fall in serious violence
A recent research report by Cardiff University found that serious violence fell substantially in England and Wales last year with the fall driven by reductions among 18- to 30-year-olds. Cardiff University’s Violence Research Group analysed data from hospital emergency departments, minor injury units and walk-in-centres in England and Wales in 2023. An estimated 141,804 people […]
