Information Sharing to Tackle Violence

From 2016 to 2023 CPI supported the pan-London Information Sharing to Tackle Violence (ISTV) programme. The ISTV programme collected data on victims of interpersonal violence presenting at A&E departments in London to create a detailed picture of the location and nature of violence occurring across the capital which was then used to inform preventative work and public health responses. CPI managed relationships for the programme across 28 A&E departments, 32 local authorities, NHS England, the Metropolitan Police, the Greater London Authority and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

Outcome: CPI’s work ensured that A&Es across London collected high quality data on victims of violence presenting for treatment. Anonymised data flowed into the GLA’s secure data platform which police and public health practitioners were able to access to help them target hotspots of violence across the capital.

Staffordshire Serious Violence Strategy

CPI supported Staffordshire Violence Reduction Alliance (a non-Home Office funded violence reduction partnership) develop its violence reduction strategy. CPI engaged and collaborated with a wide range of stakeholders including police, local authorities, health, the third sector and others, culminating in facilitating a stakeholder conference.

Outcome: Staffordshire Violence Reduction Alliance have a robust violence reduction strategy that has had input and buy-in from all key stakeholders across the statutory and third sectors, giving them the clear foundation for work to address violence in the county.

Substance Misuse Pathways

On behalf of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime CPI carried out research to understand the extent to which violence, ASB, exploitation and crime were linked to public space drugs markets in London. As well as exploring crime related to drugs markets the research mapped activities within City Hall as well as wider stakeholders that were being undertaken to tackle these issues. The research included extensive consultation with a cross-section of stakeholders drawn from MOPAC and City Hall, the Metropolitan Police, local authorities and the third sector.

Outcome: The research provided MOPAC and partners the evidence-base to understand current responses to crime and drug markets to enable a more systematic approach to be adopted across the city.

Community Crisis Service

On behalf of a London-based community organisation CPI carried out an evaluation of a National Lottery Funded programme which aimed to provide support to residents of a local authority experiencing crisis. The evaluation looked at both the effectiveness of the crisis service as well as partnership working with other local third sector organisations.

The evaluation included consultation with local residents who had accessed the service as well as consultation with a range of stakeholders across the statutory and third sectors.

Outcome: The evaluation was used by the charity to provide evidence to the National Lottery about the effectiveness of their programme enabling them to receive additional funding to extend the programme.

Evaluation of prison mental health services

On behalf of NHS England we undertook evaluations of two mental health wellbeing programmes operating in separate prisons to measure the benefits and effectiveness of the models adopted in each prison and whether they achieve improved outcomes for clients.

The evaluation included consultation with prisoners accessing the programmes as well as analysis of data from a range of clinical measures.

Outcome: The evaluation provided clear evidence of the effectiveness of the programmes and gave commissioners the information needed to inform decisions about commissioning similar programmes in other prisons.

Evaluation of a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme

On behalf of Milton Keynes City Council we undertook an evaluation of a domestic abuse perpetrator programme to determine whether the service was effectively addressing abusive behaviour.

The evaluation incorporated consultation with perpetrators on the programme, including one-to-one interviews with programme attendees and observations of group sessions.

Outcome: The findings of the evaluation gave local commissioners the evidence they needed to continue funding for the service, in the knowledge that the programme was effective at addressing the abusive behaviour of perpetrators.

Needs assessments

We have carried out needs assessments across issues and topics including:

Adverse Childhood Experiences,
Child criminal exploitation,
Domestic abuse and safe accommodation,
Drug and alcohol treatment services,
Healthy lifestyle services,
Liaison and diversion and other criminal justice diversionary schemes,
Neurodiversity,
Police Custody,
Prison healthcare,
Special educational needs and disabilities,
Sexual Assault Referral Services,
Victims and witnesses of crime

Our needs assessments have provided the evidence-base needed for commissioning and re-commissioning of services, as well as highlighting gaps in provision that need to be addressed and under-served communities.

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We are The Centre for Public Innovation. We aim to help the most disadvantaged by providing high quality research and evaluation services, commissioning support and training. We have over 20 years’ experience working with public and third sector organisations understand and to improve the effectiveness of their services so that they deliver the best possible outcomes for the people they serve.

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Research and Evaluations

Service User Consultation

Service Reviews

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We are proud to be a Community Interest Company, allying entrepreneurialism with a strong value base, sharing the same values as the clients that we work with. With over 20 years’ experience we have built a reputation as an organisation you can trust.

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About Us

CPI was set up over 20 years ago with a mission to ensure that service user outcomes are at the heart of how public and third sector services are delivered.

To reflect our mission, in 2005 CPI became a Community Interest Company, aligning our goals with our values.

Our team
CPI draw on a wide range of researchers and practitioners with decades of experience across a range of disciplines including substance misuse, criminal justice, local authority management, and commissioning. Our team include practitioners with years of front-line experience as well as expert researchers and academics.

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Research and Evaluation

We have experience of qualitative and quantitative research and have carried out projects ranging from rapid literature reviews to multi-year multi-site research projects. Our evaluations have covered a range of service areas across the public and third sectors ranging from services run by local community groups through to large, multi-agency services spanning city-wide areas.

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Service Reviews

Whatever the service you provide, whether you are in the third sector or public sector, a commissioner or a manager, we can review your offering to understand the impact that it is having and how to make it work more effectively.

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Commissioning Support

We have an in-depth understanding of commissioning gained from delivering projects across all elements of the cycle. We have worked with both commissioners and providers of commissioned services meaning that we have unique insight into them from all perspectives. This means that we can help commissioners to get the most effective possible service, and bidders to submit the best possible bid.

On behalf of commissioners we provide advice, support, specification writing and training to help you maximise your effectiveness.

For the third sector we provide support and training on how to respond to tenders, how to best position your organisation to enable you to respond to commissioning and how to collect outcome and performance data.

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Facilitation

We are experts in event facilitation and have chaired and facilitated everything from stakeholder workshops, away-days and large-scale conferences. If you need help planning and delivering an event for your staff, for stakeholders or service users, just drop us a line to see how we can help.

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Service User Consultation

We have experience in engaging vulnerable and marginalised groups and communities, making sure that their voices are heard and are incorporated in evaluations and commissioning. Our team adopt a trauma informed approach to all our work with service users. Our researchers have sensitively delivered successful research projects with clients including those in the criminal justice system, victims of crime, drug and alcohol users, health service users and children and young people.

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Needs Assessments

We have carried out needs assessments across a wide range of issues and service types to understand the needs of specific populations, gaps in provision and demand for services. Needs assessments we have carried out include:

Criminal justice services including prisons and police custody,
Domestic abuse,
Drug and alcohol,
Health needs and neurodiversity,
Offenders and offender health,
Special educational needs and disabilities,
Victims of crime.

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Training

CPI offers a wide range of training including:

Understanding commissioning
Outcome-based commissioning
Service specification development
Performance managing providers
Market development
Writing bids and funding applications
How to collect and analyse service data
Approaches to innovation

This is just a flavour of the training that we are able to provide. Get in contact with us to find out how we can meet your training requirements.

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info@cpi.org.uk to find out more about how we can help.

Case Studies

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Information Sharing to Tackle Violence

Staffordshire Serious Violence Strategy

Substance Misuse Pathways

Community Crisis Service

Evaluation of prison mental health services

Evaluation of a Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Programme

Needs assessments

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Alternatively,

Phone us on 07852 982 309, or email info@cpi.org.uk.