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  • Knife surrender schemes

    Initiatives to enable people to safely hand in weapons at designated locations.
    Cost
    ?
    Evidence quality
    Impact
  • Adventure and Wilderness Therapy

    Challenge-based activities and therapies undertaken in outdoor settings.
    Cost
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    LOW
  • Mentoring

    Mentors provide children and young people with guidance and support.
    Cost
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    MODERATE
  • Trauma-specific therapies  

    Specialist therapies which aim to support individual recovery from trauma.
    Cost
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    HIGH
  • Multi-Systemic Therapy

    A family therapy programme for children at risk of placement in either care or custody
    Cost
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    MODERATE
  • Hot spots policing

    A police strategy that targets resources and activities to places where crime is most concentrated.
    Cost
    ?
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    MODERATE
  • Trauma-informed training and service redesign

    Training staff and redesigning services with an explicit focus on recognising trauma and avoiding re-traumatisation.
    Cost
    ?
    Evidence quality
    Impact
  • Sports programmes

    Secondary or tertiary prevention programmes which engage children in organised sports or physical activity
    Cost
    ?
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    HIGH
  • Focused deterrence

    A strategy that combines communicating the consequences of violence with support for developing positive routes away from it.
    Cost
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    HIGH
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

    A talking therapy which helps people recognise and manage negative thoughts and behaviours.
    Cost
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    HIGH
  • Boot camps

    Military-style boot camps for young people who have been convicted of an offence
    Cost
    Evidence quality
    1 2 3 4 5
    Impact
    HARMFUL