ISSUE 5 September 2020

on a safer UPDATE MEET the team Rachel Staniforth

Head of the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit

We have had a very busy time here in the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit as things slowly start to pick up again and we find ourselves in a new normal.

We have finally publically launched the area profile and South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Strategy. The production of these documents was a requirement of the £1.6m funding for 2019/20. As a result of the research and the publication of these documents, we have set out sixteen priorities for violence reduction in South Yorkshire. Nancy Byrne The Community Safety Partnerships in , , and will be working towards these priorities and the strategy with local violence reduction action Nancy is Partnership Manager for plans. Doncaster and the lead for domestic and sexual violence and exploitation for I want to highlight a Home Office consultation on Serious Violence Reduction Orders the unit. (SVROs) that will allow courts to grant orders on individuals convicted of carrying an offensive weapon. This will mean that police officers can stop and search these Nancy also leads on the Plan B custody individuals at any time and not just with reasonable grounds. We want to encourage as navigator initiative and the Forging many people and organisations as possible to submit a response to the Home Office consultation at this link - https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/serious-violence- Ahead programme. reduction-orders Previously, Nancy has worked in The team are working hard on our funded initiatives. The Mentors in Violence Prevention Community Safety in Doncaster for 16 Programme is commencing in schools this month and our Plan B Custody Navigator years in a variety of roles, most scheme has now started in Doncaster Police Station Custody Suite, in addition to the recently leading on the reduction of existing service in Shepcote Lane for Sheffield and Rotherham. The Hospital Navigators acquisitive crime, reoffending and are going from strength to strength. Both navigator programmes are supporting people in restorative justice through her work to education and employment and out of violence and criminality. The Domestic Abuse Prevention Fund is now complete. Our plans to make South Yorkshire a trauma informed with the Safer Stronger Doncaster county are moving forward at a rapid pace with the establishment of a South Yorkshire Partnership. She was also part of the wide steering group. team that developed the Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA) and We will continue to keep you updated in all of the work we are doing to prevent and Domestic Abuse Caseworker (DAC) reduce violence in South Yorkshire. services in Doncaster to tackle Domestic Abuse. I’ll finish with some changes to the team, some thank you’s and welcomes. We said goodbye and thank you to Steve Parry, who worked with us on a part-time basis as Partnership Manager for Rotherham, and welcome Rachel Fletcher, who is now full-time Outside of work Nancy enjoys going to Partnership Manager for Rotherham. music gigs, watching football and hosting family and friends in her We also have said goodbye to Temporary Superintendent Lee Berry, who established the garden pub shed (pre-covid and when unit with me and has been integral in everything we have achieved to date. Thank you covid restrictions allow!). Lee for all of your hard work – you have gone above and beyond for the unit.

IN THIS • Update from Rachel • Visit from Matthew Rycroft CBE • Meet the team • Plan B in Doncaster ISSUE • Initiative update • Covid-19 Grant Recipients

Web: southyorkshireviolencereductionunit.com l Twitter: @SY_VRU | Email: [email protected] INITIATIVES NEWS in summary A&E NAVIGATORS Area Profile and Response Strategy Using A&E as a reachable and teachable moment for people in contact with highlight the causes of violence in South violence, the project provides support and intervention to break the cycle of Yorkshire offending and violence. Navigators will provide appropriate pathways, addressing needs such as education, training, housing, and substance misuse. Funding Available to Help Prevent Between January and 31st July 2020 the Hospital Navigators have supported Domestic Abuse (Now closed to 114 people admitted to A&E due to violence. The number of beneficiaries is applications) lower than anticipated due to Covid-19 which prevented the Hospital Navigators from working for a number of weeks. Referral reasons include Funding Awarded To Prevent stabbings, assaults, domestic abuse, modern slavery and gunshot injuries. Domestic Abuse

PLAN B CUSTODY NAVIGATORS Funding Directed to Community Plan B Custody Navigators is a professional intervention to people detained in Organisations Across South Yorkshire the custody suites. The purpose is to identify those people who want support Interventions and Education to Prevent to address their offending behaviour. and Reduce Violence During the first six months of this year, there has been 162 engagement contacts made with individuals within custody and 48 have gone on to engage Matthew Rycroft CBE Visits The South with the navigators outside of custody. 4 individuals have gone on to Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit employment, 6 have entered training and 15 have accessed counselling. Currently there are 28 active engaging individuals. PCC funding boost for South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit FORGING AHEAD Plan B Custody Navigators To Work In Forging Ahead is an employment programme developed by Total Training Provision, the About Face project (City Hearts) in conjunction with Her Doncaster Custody Suite Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and South Yorkshire Police. It is a Revolving Doors: A Fresh Focus for bespoke programme, that is designed to address a need in relation to PCCs: Trauma, Poverty and reducing the risk of reoffending within those being released from prison. To Rehabilitation refer an individual in to the Forging Ahead programme please contact [email protected] Sheffield Hallam leads evaluation into MENTORS IN VIOLENCE PREVENTION violent crime reduction in South Yorkshire On-line training sessions and the training package have been completed by the three schools participating in the first wave of the Mentors in Violence Violence Reduction Units in Focus Prevention Programme. Preparations are being made to visit and work with the schools in situ, to Youth Endowment Grant for Onboard progress through to the next steps of going through the lessons plans and Skatepark recruiting the pupils to become the mentors. This will take place throughout Autumn. For more information on the programme please email [email protected] or click this link - https:// southyorkshireviolencereductionunit.com/initiative/mentors-in-violence- prevention-mvp/ IMPORTANT TRAUMA INFORMED SOUTH YORKSHIRE LINKS

Work is progressing well within South Yorkshire Police. Adverse Childhood What parents and carers need to know Experience’s (ACEs) and Trauma Informed Policing will be included in the next about early years providers, schools and Police Degree Apprenticeship training and post degree Police Officer colleges during the coronavirus (COVID-19) training. This will mean that over the next two years over 1,000 Police Officers outbreak: https://bit.ly/2RIKbPv will receive awareness sessions on trauma informed practice. Department for Education Leaflets and In addition, sessions on Trauma Informed Policing will be delivered as part of posters for parents: https:// the January CPD ‘Street Skills’ sessions. ACEs and Trauma Informed resources bit.ly/2FQLJEs and information will also be included on the SYP Development Portal including information about Vicarious Trauma and reflective practice. You can email Back to school communications resource [email protected] for more information. hub: https://bit.ly/32JGT4O YOYO SPORT Department For Transport travel guidance messages: https://bit.ly/3iNYRc6 The YOYO Sport sessions are currently on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Back to school safely: https://bit.ly/3kL2v7l Guidance around young people participating in sport is being regularly updated and the steering group are in discussions with the Premier League to establish a way to resume sessions that are both safe to participants and generate the required outcomes. The YOYO Sport website is now available here – www.yoyosport.co.uk

Web: southyorkshireviolencereductionunit.com l Twitter: @SY_VRU | Email: [email protected] NEWS

What is a public health approach to Funding Available to Help Prevent Domestic violence? Abuse (Now closed to applications)

When the Home Office provided funding to 18 The South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit are areas of the UK to establish Violence Reduction offering voluntary organisations and community groups Units, it specified the requirement that a ‘public the opportunity to apply for up to health approach’ should be taken. All of these area £20,000 funding to help prevent domestic abuse. shave sought to define what this actually means, as Rachel Staniforth and Greg Fell explain. The Domestic Abuse Prevention Fund is now open for Read more … applications from projects that will work to prevent and reduce violence across South Yorkshire, focused on the primary and secondary prevention of domestic abuse. Sheffield Hallam leads evaluation into Read more … violent crime reduction in South Yorkshire Psychologists from Sheffield Hallam University are Interventions and Education to Prevent to lead an evaluation project which aims to assess the effectiveness of activities and interventions and Reduce Violence undertaken by South Yorkshire’s Violence Reduction Unit. The South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit has contributed to 2,444 children and young people being Established in August 2019, following a successful educated about trauma, healthy relationships and multi-agency bid for a £1.6m funding grant from domestic and sexual abuse and 1,739 young people the Home Office, the South Yorkshire Violence receiving direct interventions since their launch in Reduction Unit works in partnership with a range of October 2019. public, community, faith and voluntary organisations to develop and deliver a range of This has all been made possible by the work carried out activities to reduce violence in the region. by some of South Yorkshire’s non-profit community Read more … organisations who were successful in bidding for funding from the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Fund. Read more … PCC funding boost for South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit Matthew Rycroft CBE Visits The South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit The Home Office has announced that a further £1.6million will be made available to the South The South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit welcomed Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Dr Alan Matthew Rycroft CBE, Home Office Permanent Secretary Billings, to continue the work of the recently to their offices on Friday, 11 September. Mr Rycroft was established South Yorkshire Violence Reduction met by Rachel Staniforth, Head of the South Yorkshire Unit. Read more ... Violence Reduction at the Unit’s offices on Shepcote Lane Sheffield. Read more ... Youth Endowment Grant for Onboard Skatepark

Onboard Skatepark Sheffield Ltd are honoured and excited to announce their success with the Youth Endowment Grant. Read more ...

Web: southyorkshireviolencereductionunit.com l Twitter: @SY_VRU | Email: [email protected] Plan B Custody Navigators To Work Area Profile and Response Strategy In Doncaster Custody Suite highlight the causes of violence in South Yorkshire Plan B Custody Navigators will be supporting detainees, arrested for violent crimes in Doncaster The area profile and response strategy are documents Police Station Custody Suite with effect from Thursday, researched and written by the South Yorkshire Violence 17 September. Reduction Unit as a condition of the £1.6m funding provided by the Home Office to the South Yorkshire The custody navigators will support detainees who Police and Crime Commissioner to set up a violence have been arrested on suspicion of violent offences. reduction unit in South Yorkshire. Read more … The navigators will engage with those wanting to change their lives, using their time in custody as a teachable moment to help them make decisions to accept the help and make positive changes. Read more ...

Funding Directed to Community Organisations Across South Yorkshire

Funding provided by the Home Office to the South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit is being channelled in to community organisations across South Yorkshire to help with support needs after the coronavirus lockdown.

The funding is being directed to smaller charities and INFORMATION community groups within the county for support to From Other Agencies children and young people, to ensure they can resume their activities after the coronavirus pandemic. The Children’s Society have published a special ‘2020 Read more ... Covid-specific’ report called ‘Life on Hold’ which you may also find useful - https://bit.ly/32RfVsl Funding Awarded To Prevent Domestic The Children’s Society are working in partnership with Abuse other children’s charities to see, hear and respond quickly to the needs of children and young people in the wake of The South Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit has Covid-19. The project, funded by The Department for awarded funding to organisations to work on new Education and The Home Office, works in partnership with projects aimed at preventing domestic abuse in South the UK's leading children's charities, including Barnardo's Yorkshire. and Action for Children - https://bit.ly/33NO3Es A total of £200,000 has been awarded to 13 We want to hear about inspirational young people. If you organisations in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and are working with, or know of a young person who is taking Sheffield from the Domestic Abuse Prevention Fund to action in their community and within their circle of work to prevent and reduce violence across South influence, for positive change, please get in touch with us Yorkshire, focused on the primary and secondary on prevention of domestic abuse. Read more ... [email protected]

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