Speak Up on Violence Prevention

Welcome to the Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City Serious Violence Duty, ‘Speak up on Violence Prevention’ #speakupNotts

The engagement will run for a month from 18 September to 23:59 on 18 October 2023. This is an opportunity for everyone in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire to give their views on how safe our communities are and what we can do together to prevent violence and make our communities safer.

Why are we doing this?
As part of the Government’s new Serious Violence Duty, partners in Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City are undertaking surveys with young people (under 25), communities, and voluntary and community organisations to gather views and perceptions of serious violence in the county and city.

We are seeking to understand and identify the kinds of serious violence that young people experience across Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City and what you feel should be done locally to prevent and tackle violence.

These insights will help inform the preparation, publication and implementation of a number of focused local strategies on how we can all work together in partnership to support communities affected by violence and to reduce and prevent serious violence across all areas in Nottinghamshire, which once prepared and published, must be kept under review and reviewed on an annual basis.

How to get involved
Let us know your views on serious violence in Nottinghamshire and Nottingham City and help to shape the local response to violence prevention and reduction across the seven district areas, and Nottingham City, by filling out the survey.

If you have any accessibility issues with this survey such as requiring the survey in another language or format, please email vrp@notts.police.uk with your contact details. The survey should take 5-10 minutes to complete.

The Speak Up on Violence Prevention engagement will run from 18 September 2023 until 23:59 on 18 October 2023.

Background
Serious violence has a devastating impact on the lives of victims and families and instils fear within communities and is extremely costly to society. Incidents of serious violence have increased in England and Wales since 2014. For example, offences involving knives or sharp instruments increased by 84 per cent between the year to June 2014 and the year to June 2020.

The Serious Violence Duty is a key part of the Government’s programme of work to collaborate and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence: taking a multi-agency approach to understanding the causes and consequences of serious violence, focusing on prevention and early intervention, and being informed by evidence.

Serious violence has far-reaching, devastating impacts on victims and our communities. It’s important that all organisations collaborate and use data, insights and evidence to design and implement a local response which tackles both the causes and consequences of serious violence.

As a partnership we want to hear your views on violence in your area and what we can do to collectively make our communities safer and prevent serious violence. Your views will help shape local plans on actions and delivery to directly impact on this.

To find out more about the Serious Violence Duty visit http://www.gov.uk/government/serious-violence-duty.

http://forms.office.com/e/ddfY29ZeV6 to take part in the survey.