Our Truth about Poverty
- April 2024
Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit
Understanding the strengths, challenges, and needs of the community and determing how local investments will be made
- Lead Member Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
- Categories Community
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Principles met
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Co-production
We will develop systems that enable citizens to be equal partners in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources. -
Community leadership and a new role for councillors
We will explore ways for councils to act as a platform for helping the community to contribute to local outcomes, and to re-think the role of councillors as community connectors, brokers and leaders. -
Democratic engagement
We will support the active engagement of the full range of residents in decision making and priority setting. -
New models of meeting priority needs
In exploring new ways of meeting the priority needs of our communities we will encourage models, such as co-operatives and mutuals, which give greater influence and voice to staff and users. in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.
Community-led approach
The community-led approach to violence reduction, means the VRU works closely with communities to understand the strengths, challenges, and needs of the community and determine how local investments will be made.
When communities are affected by violence often the key to sustainable solutions can often be found by speaking to local residents about the underlying causes of crime, working with rather than deciding for them.
Working place-based, these initiatives are about learning the priorities in each community and co-designing services with local people that will benefit their community. All ten boroughs across the city region have received funding from the VRU as part of its investment in community-led programmes.
Community Spotlights
Our Community Spotlight Series was launched to amplify the positive stories of young people, community leaders, those with lived experience and other stakeholders from the communities we serve. The series hears from young people who are facilitating positive change within their communities, the work that community organisations are doing within Greater Manchester and real stories of positive change.
Greater than Violence Strategy
For further information contact:
Daniel Diamond
Principal Officer
Serious Violence Partnership Lead
Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit
