Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University
Abstract
Merseyside is one of the 18 areas allocated funding since 2019 by the UK government to establish a Violence Reduction Unit. To inform the continued development of the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP), since its inception in the Merseyside Academics’ Violence Prevention Partnership (MAVPP) led by LJMU have been commissioned to evaluate the Merseyside VRP as a whole, and selected work programme. In addition, the 22/23 LJMU were commissioned to implement additional research to fill gaps in local knowledge. This report forms one of a suite of outputs from the 2022/23 evaluation and research work programme, and specifically presents an evaluation of the Time Matters Programme. All Merseyside VRP research and evaluation outputs are available on the LJMU1 and Merseyside VRP2 websites, or via the work programme lead, Prof Zara Quigg ([email protected])
