Racial Disproportionality
The current state of disproportionality Violence has devastating impacts on children and families. While children from all backgrounds can face violence, children from certain ethnic backgrounds are...
View ArticleYouth Sector Briefing: The role of the youth sector in reducing violence
Emerging insights for sector leaders, local authority youth commissioners, charitable funders, Police and Crime Commissioners, housing associations, and policy leads. This winter, we’ll publish...
View ArticleFocused deterrence guidance
This report offers practical guidance to help organisations deliver effective and equitable focused deterrence (FD) in England and Wales. This guidance is aimed at the delivery of FD programmes to...
View ArticleCore Indicators of Violence
Our core indicator dashboard provides a clear account of whether children’s involvement in violence is improving or worsening, by evaluating the performance of key sectors supporting these children and...
View ArticleStatistics update (April 2025): Trends in violence affecting children
This is an update to the statistics published in our Beyond the Headlines report. This update includes latest data on core indicators for knife crime, policing, health, children’s services and the...
View ArticleDiversion Practice Guidance
This report – which was co-authored by the Centre for Justice Innovation – focuses on what happens to children at the early stages of the youth justice system when they first encounter the police. This...
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