1 May 2021 Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership 2020-21: Whole System Evaluation Report Zara Quigg, Hannah Timpson, Matthew Millings, Nadia Butler, Carly Lightowlers, Sally-Ann Ashton, Jennifer Hough, Rebecca Bates Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership 2020-21: Whole System Evaluation Report Zara Quigg1, Hannah Timpson1, Matthew Millings2, Nadia Butler1, Carly Lightowlers3, Sally-Ann Ashton4, Jennifer Hough5, Rebecca Bates1 1 Public Health Institute (PHI), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention, 2 School of Justice, LJMU, 3 University of Liverpool, 4 Edge Hill University, 5 Liverpool Hope University May 2021 For further information contact Zara Quigg
[email protected] About this report Merseyside is one of the 18 areas allocated funding in 2019 by the UK Government to establish a Violence Reduction Unit. To inform the continued development of the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP), in November 2019 (Quigg et al, 2020) and July 2020, the Merseyside Academics’ Violence Prevention Partnership (MAVPP) 1 were commissioned to evaluate the VRP as a whole, and selected work programmes. This report forms one of a suite of outputs from this evaluation work programme, and specifically presents a whole system evaluation of the Merseyside VRP. Additional evaluation reports for 2020/21 explore: • The Mentors in Violence Prevention Programme (Butler et al, 2021). • The VRP Data Hub (Lightowlers et al, 2021). • The ‘new’ VRP Sports, Arts and Culture work programme (Hough and Quigg, 2021). • Support programmes for the families of offenders (Ashton and Quigg, 2021). Evaluation outputs are available on the VRP website: www.merseysidevrp.com/what-we-do/ Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following people and organisations for supporting the VRP evaluation: • The evaluation funders, Merseyside VRP.