Partner Agencies work together to respond to needs and risks in our communities. Local partnership systems and meetings are central to a public health approach because the long term reduction of violence cannot be achieved by prosecuting people. Different partners have access to different skills, levers and mechanisms to effect change in communities and individuals.

Partners need to know how to use their time and resources in a way that improves population health, safety and wellbeing by reducing serious violence. Public health approaches are always consciously located within a wider system – which includes communities – rather than thought of in isolation. 

As a VRP we understand this and work together to develop our systems and processes. We recognise that no single agency has the same lens on the system, so all of the partners share responsibility for improving and developing the system together.