Decision details

Greater Manchester’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) have received funding from the Home Office and Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) to pilot YEF’s Focused Deterrence programme in the city of Manchester and Trafford. This work will run alongside four other similar projects across the UK.

The impact of the programme will be monitored via a randomised control trial. Lessons learned from Greater Manchester VRU’s work (and other areas) will provide new insight into how Focused Deterrence programmes can be adapted and adopted to reduce violent crime in the UK.

The animated case studies will be used to demonstrate the impact of the programme on young people and their families. The case studies will be shared with YEF for evaluation purposes, but also used to encourage other young people who are approached to be part of the programme.

We are seeking to award a contract to Carbon Creative to the value of £4,850 funded from the PCC’s YEF delivery phase funding. This funding will be used to produce animated case studies to show the impact of the Another Chance programme. The case studies will also be used as a way of encouraging young people to be part of the programme.