Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation

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As part of the Government's Serious Violence programme, we are continuing to support local areas across England and Wales to strengthen their response to tackling serious violence, via the Ending Gang Violence & Exploitation (EGVE) programme. The serious violence unit has match-funded 38 local reviews and five strategic reviews, carried out by an independent team of experts since 2016/17. Following their commissioning of these reviews, local areas and partners have reported an improved understanding of emerging threats and issues, including local drug markets and how they drive violence. In addition to this, because of EGVE funded support, collaboration amongst local areas and their partners has been further promoted, which has in turn developed a local response to safeguarding and vulnerability issues. We intend to continue providing this service and the support to local areas using the local and strategic reviews. The Home Office is seeking to award grant funding to the successful organisation with the appropriate experience and expertise in tackling serious violence, gangs, county lines and vulnerability related issues, to undertake local and strategic reviews, and provide operational follow up support. The successful applicant will: • Maintain a network of appropriate experts. • Deliver match-funded local reviews to areas experiencing gang related exploitation issues and or/any local area experiencing a newly emerged critical threat and provide follow up return visits to each area to understand progress. • Deliver match-funded regional strategic reviews to identify a common framework that the police, Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) and partners across a region can sign up to, to effectively respond to the relevant and identified local issues. • Provide operation and support days tailored to the relevant locality. • Coordinate and chair the monthly telecons with local single points of contact to share information on national and local initiatives. • Provide support to the annual EGVE Forum by sharing best practice and expertise and linking into our online knowledge hub. • Design and provide an on-line training offer to practitioners for all local areas offering licenses.