Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime
VRU - Expert Partner for Youth Digital Safety in London
About the VRU The London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU), hosted within the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC), pioneers a partnership-based public health approach to tackling violence through prevention and early intervention.
Since 2019, the VRU has invested in over 550,000 targeted interventions for young people across London.
Working with partners across government, local authorities, education, health, policing and the voluntary and community sector, the VRU supports coordinated action at the key touchpoints that influence a young person’s journey: early years and families, education, positive opportunities, youth work, and communities and place.
Central to the VRU’s approach is a commitment to embedding the voices of young people, practitioners and communities in policy, programme design and decision-making.
Programme Background The VRU recognises that the rapid growth of…
What the supplier must deliver
While online spaces can support connection, creativity
While online spaces can support connection, creativity, learning and participation, they can also expose young people to harmful content, exploitation, misogyny, harassment, coercion and technology-enabled abuse, and can contribute to the escalation of offline harm and violence.
As digital risks continue to evolve, there
As digital risks continue to evolve, there remains a significant gap between young people’s lived experiences of the online world and the systems, policies and services designed to support them.
This programme is expected to include
This programme is expected to include:.
Strengthening trusted adult capability through specialist training
Strengthening trusted adult capability through specialist training and practical support.
To support this ambition, the VRU is
To support this ambition, the VRU is seeking to appoint an Expert Partner for Youth Digital Safety in London.
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