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    • National Vulnerability and Public Protection Strategy

       

      Click here to read more about the National Vulnerability and Public Protection Strategy

    • Coordinating and improving the policing response to vulnerability

      We are a passionate, diverse and multi-disciplinary group of staff who believe in bringing evidence and different perspectives together to effect positive change within policing.

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    What is the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme (VKPP)​?

    The VKPP works within the new National Centre for VAWG (Violence Against Women and Girls) and Public Protection (NCVPP). The Centre is a partnership between the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and brings together the expertise of the VKPP and the Soteria and VAWG Programmes.

    Together we work with the leads from NPCC’s Violence and Public Protection and Violence Against Women and Girls portfolios to improve policing's overall response to vulnerability, reducing threat and harm and improving outcomes for victims. The Centre provides centralised strategic advice and operational support to policing across public protection and VAWG with a focus on:

    1. Consistency of practice and supporting excellence in forces
    2. Professionalising public protection, including accreditation
    3. Tackling violence against women and girls

    The Centre is funded by the Home Office and our child safeguarding practice review panel work is supported by the Department for Education.

    What is vulnerability?

    'A person is vulnerable if, as a result of their situation or circumstances, they are unable to take care of or protect themselves or others from harm or exploitation.’ Introduction to vulnerability-related risk | College of Policing

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