THEMES

Public Health

Community Resilience

Community Needs Assessments for the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit

PROCESS

Training

Facilitation

The Project Brief

Our Approach

In consultation with the consortium partners, CSC is developing a community needs assessment (CNA) for each borough, which will support each consortium to make decisions and justify choices around their interventions, ensure their work is targeted and speaks to service provision, and make the most of existing relationships in the community.


The CNA will take the form of:

  • A digital mapping tool (developed alongside our technical partner Plinth)

  • An accompanying report to further contextualise the tool

  • A report on consortiums’ capacity-building needs, which will support the MyEnds team to provide targeted capacity-building support throughout the delivery period.

To feed into reports and the digital mapping tool, CSC has been running workshops with each consortium to brainstorm local assets and relationships that are essential to their delivery; good practice and gaps in service provision in their area when it comes to supporting young people; and consortiums’ specific capacity needs. The workshops were also an opportunity for consortiums to contextualise crime metrics and data around social determinants of crime being built into the tool, and tell us what data they’d like to see in the tool.

The Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) has commissioned us to deliver a community needs assessment which will support 9 consortiums of community organisations, funded as part of the the VRU’s flagship programme — MyEnds — to deliver preventative activities to support young people affected or at risk of violence to the best of their ability. The nine boroughs are Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Croydon, Haringey Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Tower Hamlets.

Impact

After developing the reports and first version of the tool, for the consortiums to test and feedback on, CSC will hand it over to the consortiums to own and update over the two-year delivery period.


The project is due to be completed in October 2024.