Knife bins and knife amnesty: May 2022
This week (Monday 9 May) a knife amnesty has launched across Essex alongside the rollout of new knife bins at 14 sites across the county, including a new knife bin at Grays. The knife bins now feature the artwork of the three secondary school pupils who won our competition to design an anti-knife poster for […]
Operation Henderson: April 2022
Last week outreach workers were out across Essex as part of Operation Henderson. Operation Henderson is the campaign to raise awareness of exploitation on public transport. Youth Workers, Community Safety Partnerships, Community Policing Teams and Social Workers had some great conversations with bus station and train station workers, taxi drivers, members of the public and […]
Home Office funding secures future of Essex VVU: April 2022
The Essex Violence and Vulnerability Partnership was today awarded over £5 million from the Home Office to continue its fight against drug driven violence, county lines and knife crime. This funding, distributed across the next three years, not only guarantees the continuation of the Violence and Vulnerability programme over this period but is a large […]
Learn more about gangs and exploitation: March 2022
In conjunction with Reach Every Generation and the Safer Chelmsford Partnership, we are running some free workshops for parents and carers to learn more about exploitation and how gangs operate. If you have a child at secondary school and would like to improve your knowledge about grooming, gangs and county lines then sign up for […]
Visiting Youth Services in Basildon: Feb 2022
Police Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex, Roger Hirst and Cllr Louise McKinlay, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Community, Equality, Partnerships and Performance at Essex County Council visited the Basildon Hub of Essex Youth Service on Monday. Essex Youth Service is an informal education, social and personal development service that supports young people across […]
Southend on Sea Youth Council launch anti-knife crime campaign: Jan 2022
Southend on Sea youth council have launched an anti-knife campaign with a knife prevention video “Lives Over Knives” at the heart of its campaign messaging. Funded by the VVU, the film is the centrepiece of the Youth Council’s knife crime prevention campaign which has been in planning since winter 2019. The campaign was motivated by […]