Addressing serious youth violence

Across April 2025 – March 2026, the partnership delivered significant progress under the Serious Violence Duty. Despite challenges around funding and data, Telford & Wrekin partners strengthened multi‑agency oversight, enhanced support for vulnerable young people, improved responses to domestic abuse, and expanded local community safety activity linked to serious violence reduction.

The partnership remains committed to evidence-led, preventative, multi‑agency approaches to reduce serious violence across Telford & Wrekin.

There were 246 crimes recorded with a serious youth marker between April 2025 – March 2026.

It is essential that do all we can to continue to tackle this serious crime and support young people from them becoming involved in a crime that destroys lives. Our approach will be informed by a public health approach, driven through five principles:

Theme	Example areas of planned intervention and action
Collaboration	We will engage with a diverse range of partners to successfully work together towards the shared goal of tackling and preventing violence.
Co-production	We will work towards a partnership that listens and reflects all local partners perspectives and importantly meaningfully involves the community in solutions.
Cooperation in data and intelligence sharing	We will establish a data sharing process that enables an evidence-based response to tackle serious violence.
Counter-narrative development	We will work to develop a delivery plan that creates credible and trusted alternatives for all and celebrates the strength of our communities.
Community consensus	Lies at the heart of place based public health approach and we will work with communities and groups most at risk to empower them to become involves in developing solutions.