Understanding Violence in South Wales: a multi-agency perspective

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Understanding Violence in South Wales: a multi-agency perspective

• IRAS ID

  171650

• Contact name

  Laura Rossiter

• Contact email

  laura.rossiter2@wales.nhs.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Public Health Wales

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 11 months, 30 days

• Research summary

  Violence is multi-faceted and occurs across different life stages and settings. Taking a life course approach, violence takes the form of child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner violence during relationship formation, sexual violence and elder abuse. Some forms of violence, such as child maltreatment, sexual and intimate partner violence are more likely to occur in private settings; whereas other forms of violence, such as alcohol-related violence, are more likely to occur in a public space. The effects of violence are widespread, impacting upon the individual, the family, communities and services, leading to increased health and social care costs, and costs to the wider economy, for example, increased time off work. Violence represents 20% of all crime recorded by the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) 2013, covering a wide range of offences from common assault to injury and murder. Estimates from the CSEW suggest that around 2 out of 100 adults in England and Wales have been victims of violence. Consequently, violence is a high priority for local authorities, health services and the police.
  This project aims to create an understanding of violence to inform prevention and intervention in the South Wales Area; and to understand the utilisation of routinely collected data in measuring the impact of policy and other interventions taking account of characteristics such as gender, age, socio-economic status and geographical location.

  Aims:
  1) To develop a routine monitoring system based on routinely collected healthcare and police data that will enable localised solutions to violence in Wales, and to understand the utilisation of routinely collected data in measuring the impact of policy and other interventions
  2) To outline the epidemiology of violence in Wales
  3) To understand risk for violence (perpetration and victimisation) in order to inform prevention and intervention

• REC name

  Wales REC 5

• REC reference

  16/WA/0031

• Date of REC Opinion

  24 Jan 2016

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion