Serious Violence Needs Assessment - Professionals Survey

We are carrying out a Serious Violence Needs Assessment to understand the needs of people at risk of becoming involved in serious violence in Coventry.

Coventry City Council and its partners would like your help to try and improve the response to those at risk of becoming involved in serious violence. We can improve our response and target our resources by receiving your feedback. The assessment will be used to help develop the response across the city.

The deadline for responses is 13th March 2023.

• This survey is for all practitioners who work with individuals that may have or be at risk of harm from serious violence or exploitation.
• The survey captures views on services and approaches to addressing risks in Coventry.
• When we use the term “services”, this also includes the wider partners, such as Police, Probation, health services, etc., and not just the commissioned services. We are keen to receive views on the overall system, not just the commissioned services.

Coventry City Council officers will use the information collected in this survey to help improve our services. We may share the results of the survey. All information produced will be anonymised.

The survey contains sections on:

• Identification
• Existing response in Coventry
• Joint-working
• Involving young people
• Training needs

Please respond as fully as you can, but we appreciate that not all of you will be able to complete every section. Please complete the parts that are relevant to you.