{"id":5908,"date":"2024-03-25T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=5908"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:07:38","slug":"serious-violence-duty","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/glossary\/serious-violence-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious violence duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Serious Violence duty was introduced as part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and requires specified authorities \u2013 police, justice (probation and YOTs), fire and rescue service, health (ICBs) and local authorities \u2013 to work together to prevent and reduce serious violence. This includes identifying the kinds of serious violence (so far as it is possible to do so), and to prepare and implement a strategy for preventing and reducing serious violence in the area. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/serious-violence-duty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statutory Guidance:\u00a0 Serious Violence Duty (Home Office)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serious Violence duty was introduced as part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and requires specified authorities \u2013 police, justice (probation and YOTs), fire and rescue service, health (ICBs) and local authorities \u2013 to work together to prevent and reduce serious violence. This includes identifying the kinds of serious violence (so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/glossary\/serious-violence-duty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serious violence duty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_helpful_status":1,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5908","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/5908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.policypartnersproject.co.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}