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MOPAC’s Evidence & Insight team carried out an evaluation the VRU’s hospital-based youth work programme, which sees clinically embedded youth workers

The VRU commissioned Ecorys UK, in partnership with Renaisi, to undertake a process and impact evaluation of the Girls and Young Women's Mentoring

Your Choice provides training for youth practitioners in cognitive behavioural therapy techniques, who then aim to provide regular sessions with 11 to

IRIS provides primary care practitioners with domestic violence and abuse training, support and a referral service for women experiencing current or

Stronger Futures is a targeted funding programme manged by Rocket Science and Action for Race Equality.

Rise Up is a leadership development programme that aims to enhance youth practitioners’ skills, confidence, and experience to better support

The Therapeutic Intervention for Peace (TIP) Project is a codeveloped and culturally sensitive model of partnership work which aims to reduce

An information guide created to support organisations of any shape and size to meaningfully work alongside young Londoners.

Research examining the impact on young people of using knife imagery in social media posts.

London's Violence Reduction Unit commissioned the Behavioural Insights Team to create a framework to help us better understand homicides, how

Commissioned by the VRU, this research focused on nine local areas in London to examine violence and has reinforced understanding of the known drivers

London’s Violence Reduction Unit commissioned new research to improve our understanding of the prevalence and nature of children and young people's

In 2020, the VRU commissioned the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) to develop a Strategic Needs Assessment to inform its approach to violence

London's VRU funded new research by Project 10/10 to develop greater insight and learning of community-based crisis intervention and trauma support

The VRU commissioned an in-depth exploration of online harms, ‘acceptable’ use and regulation, that included the experiences of young people, whose

The Social Switch Project aims to switch the narrative on how social media’s relationship to youth violence is understood, tackled and solved.

The University of Bath was commissioned by London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) to undertake a piece of research on inclusion and belonging in

The Trauma Informed Research seeks to better understand the London landscape through collaborative and participatory approaches, strengthening links