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 National Policing Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme (VKPP)?

The VKPP are delivering projects to develop the evidence base for vulnerability and related serious crime, across police forces in England and Wales, driving practice improvement.

Working with the National Police Chiefs' Council's (NPCC), the Violence and Public Protection (VPP) lead and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) lead, DCC Maggie Blyth, and funded by the Home Office, the VKPP undertake a range of direct engagement with forces and key partners to understand current practice, identify promising practice, gaps and share knowledge and shape future responses with emphasis on the 14 stands of public protection. This is with a view to improving policing's overall response, reducing threat and harm, bringing more offenders to justice and improving outcomes for victims.

VKPP Purpose Role and Function

VKPP Objectives and Priority Workstreams 2023/24

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

We work with national policing bodies, forces and partners to:

Develop and drive the National Vulnerability Action Plan (NVAP)

Map, link and promote promising practice

Provide supportive Peer Review for forces

Explore ways to improve data sharing and analysis

Support delivery of local children's safeguarding partnerships

Provide support and insight for policing response to Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)

Track the scale and nature of Domestic Abuse related deaths

Conduct primary research to inform the overall evidence base into policing and vulnerability

Consolidate learning from statutory reviews into death and serious harm