Violence reduction for children and young people

The Serious Violence Duty is a statutory duty for specified authorities to collaborate to prevent and reduce serious violence.

We have adopted the following definition for serious violence: ‘intentional harm, either physical or psychological, that has a substantial or significant impact on the victim or wider community and which is often related to assaults, weapon-enabled crime, antisocial behaviour or homicide.’

The Trafford Serious Violence Strategy has been collaboratively developed and details the way in which different organisations will work together to prevent and reduce Serious Violence in Trafford. Contact us by email violencereduction@trafford.gov.uk.

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit work to address the underlying causes of violence and collaborate with communities to prevent it. The unit has established a team of subject leads and experts from:

• Greater Manchester Police
• Greater Manchester Combined Authority
• Greater Manchester National Probation Service
• Public Health
• NHS
• Education
• Community Voluntary Sector
• Victim’s Voice
• Youth Justice
• Local Authorities

The Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit have also published the 10-year Greater Than Violence strategy for preventing and reducing violence.