Manager for Improving Population Health, West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership,
Public Health Lead for Maternity, West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership,
Public Health Lead West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit

Emmerline started her career in 1997 as a Youth Worker, delivering bespoke projects for young people around health and wellbeing and behaviour change. After gaining her PGD in Public Health and Health Promotion in 2007, Emmerline joined the Public Health Team in Kirklees as a Public Health Specialist. In this role Emmerline led on a range of Public Health portfolios, including commissioning Sexual Health Services for Children and Young people, Commissioning Maternity Services and 0-19 services. During her time in Kirklees Emmerline’s role also included workforce development and social marketing and engagement. Between 2014 and 2018 Emmerline worked at NHS England, as a Quality Improvement Lead for the Children Young People’s and Maternity Networks bringing partners together across Yorkshire and the Humber to improve outcomes for women, children and families.

In 2018 Emmerline joined the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership as Manager for Improving Population Health, this role includes leading on prevention across the partnership including, maternity, reducing serious violence to improve outcomes and reducing health inequalities for the population across West Yorkshire and Harrogate.

Kim Suart Done is the Evidence Hub Analyst in the MVRP. Seconded to the team from Merseyside Police she has worked in policing for 17 years, with experience in research and analysis, and partnership engagement.

Merseyside Fire & Rescue Lead for MVRP. Employed by MFRS for 4.5 yrs within the Youth Department which falls under Prevention

Over 30 years experience working pan Merseyside within communities with youth and adults setting up and managing a diverse range of projects.

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Louis is the Lead Analyst for Policing and Crime at Greater Manchester Combined Authority. working closely with Greater Manchester’s Violence Reduction Unit. Established in October 2019, the Greater Manchester VRU is a partnership of experts from Greater Manchester Police (GMP), Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Greater Manchester National Probation Service, Public Health, NHS, Education, Community Voluntary Sector, Victim’s Voice, Youth Justice and Local Authorities, addressing the underlying causes of violence and working together with communities to prevent it.

Louis has 8 years’ experience in research, evaluation, and monitoring across the public and third sector, including in policing and crime, substance misuse services, healthcare, and economics.

Lara is the national programme lead for violence prevention at Public Health Wales, working in the WHO Collaborating Centre and leading the public health work strand in the Wales Violence Prevention Unit.

Lara has two masters degrees in public health and gender and international relations. She has recently started at PhD in the Public Health Institute at LJMU exploring the primary prevention of interpersonal violence among young people.

Alex is the Violence Prevention Outcomes Officer and Evaluation Lead for the Wales Violence Prevention Unit (VPU), working in the public health strand of the VPU.

Alex has a PhD in Dementia, and a MSc in Clinical Psychology. Within the VPU, Alex provides research, evaluation and health/police data analysis.

Teigan Whiffing is an intelligence analyst for Lancashire Constabulary working full-time within the Lancashire Violence Reduction Network (LVRN). Teigan has an academic background in investigative and forensic psychology, with a focus on behavioural consistency of offending and perceptions of victims.

Prior to joining Lancashire Police, Teigan worked within the rehabilitative space with individuals who had been convicted of or who were at risk of committing a violent or sexual offence, supporting their safe reintegration to their community by addressing unmet need. Within her current role with the LVRN she provides the analytical products and resources that guide the decision-making of the team through a multi-agency lens, examples of these are the LVRN strategic needs assessment, the violence against women and girls (VAWG) problem profile, the youth violence consultation and so forth.

Teigan is the co-chair of the Pan-Lancashire data group and is focused on the expansion and development of current data sharing across services and organisations for preventative purposes, ensuring that we truly operate in a trauma-informed way.

Supt Justin Srivastava has served for more than 26 years as a police officer, and currently works on the Lancashire Violence Reduction Unit; he is the VRU lead for the UK Home Office on trauma-informed practice within policing. Since 2017, he has led for the NPCC on the Police and Health Consensus, examining how policing and health/social care partners can improve their work together to address vulnerability demand and intervening at the earliest opportunity. In support of this Justin has published national documents for Public Health England and the College of Policing on public health approaches to policing, early intervention, trauma informed practice and police and health collaboration.

In 2018, Justin was appointed the strategic lead for the National Police Wellbeing Service and was responsible for developing strategy and operational practice for the wellbeing of serving and retired police officers in England and Wales. Justin has served in uniform and detective roles and was involved in the development of the ‘Transforming Lives’ early intervention approach which has been nationally recognised by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) as good practice. He holds a degree in Social Policy and Criminology, and in 2017 he graduated with distinction from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) with an MSc course in Early Action and Professional Practice, specialising in Adverse Childhood Experiences, leadership within an integrated partnership environment and developing learning organisations.

Rachel Lawson works as a coordinator in Northumbria's Office of the Police and Crime Commissioners (OPCC) Violence Reduction Unit, her work is predominately linked to Criminal Justice Service.

Rachel started her career in 1998 with Probation having graduated from Sunderland University. She became a permanent member of the OPCC's staffing team in 2014. Her career within the OPCC has enabled her to develop skills in research, training delivery and gain a deeper understanding of the CJS, vulnerability and Violence Against Women and Girls.

Jacqueline Critchley has worked for the Newcastle United Foundation for 4.5 years as a Project Coordinator developing a range of targeted intervention programmes aimed at reducing offending, providing early intervention and improving school attendance for young people aged 8-18.

For 3 years she has led on the creation and implementation of the YOLO programme alongside the Violence Reduction Unit, Northumbria Police and Sunderland Foundation of Light. Having worked both strategically and operationally on the programme, Jacqueline has developed a range of skills and knowledge including; multi-agency working, theory of change development, line management and measuring impact through data.

The Newcastle United Foundation is the charity arm of Newcastle United Football Club and through her work alongside the organisation, Jacqueline has created and sustained new partnerships, generated additional funding and implemented new programmes targeting a new cohort of participants from the community.’

Louise has worked for local authorities across the North East and North West over the past 14 years. During the past seven years she was a senior manager at Knowsley Council in the community safety service, with strategic responsibility for reducing reoffending and managing the drug intervention programme. There she designed strategies, policies and processes to reduce reoffending and ensure a quality service.

Louise has led various multi-agency partnerships and area-based transformation programmes to improve local communities and people’s lives by making them feel safer, preventing the cycle of reoffending, improving mainstream services and reducing inequalities, as well as leading on the work of the community safety partnership. She has designed service specifications, commissioned and monitored new services in Knowsley.

Louise has strong project and programme management skills and is a qualified PRINCE2 practitioner project manager. She is passionate about making a difference to people’s lives and committed to achieving the best results for clinicians, patients and the public, ensuring that a high quality and responsive service is delivered.

An established senior leader across public service with wide range of experience of leadership roles. Neil is a former Chief Superintendent with 35 policing experience in Lancashire Constabulary. Has worked extensively across Criminal Justice business areas, supporting National projects and policy development with the Home Office and Ministry of Justice. Now working as a senior advisor to Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS ICS, where he leads on multi agency working to support the mental health business area, also jointly leading the ICS Suicide Prevention Programme.

Neil and his colleagues have been instrumental in the development of the suicide and drug related Real Time Surveillance System since 2019 to present. A strong advocate and ambassador for collaborative and partnership development to achieve better outcomes for communities.

Nicola has worked for NHS England in the North West for the last 10 years. Initially working on operational assurance of commissioners and acute trusts across Lancashire, she then focused on urgent and emergency care (UEC) service provision. Her current role looks at the transformation of these UEC services, supporting providers to implement national and best practice guidance, to ensure high quality services are available for patients as, when and where they need them

Previous roles include supporting the North West Incident Coordination Centre at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic; post-graduate course development and lecturing; knowledge management of a national DH in-patient safety programme; and delivery of a whole system older peoples community falls prevention initiative. Nicola has a PG Cert in Health Informatics; a Masters by Research and is currently working towards a second Masters in Healthcare Leadership. In her down time she enjoys caravanning, concerts and her three young children.

Julie is the Data Liaison Manager within the North West Data Liaison Service (DLS). The DLS brings together stakeholder engagement and information capabilities into a single function,offering support across a range of health and care settings including supporting NHS and care organisations in adopting and utilising nationally mandated datasets.

The DLS vision is to support providers to improve the effectiveness of nationally submitted data. DLS use a wide range of methods to support engagement acting as a single voice of the customer to raise wider, cross-cutting issues for escalation to health and care system leaders and to seek direct responses from Programs. Local health and care organisations can avoid the need for multiple repetitive conversations with different parts of organisations involved.

DLS work directly with clinicians and operational teams, programme leads and IT specialists in hospital trusts as well as GP practices, community pharmacies, local authorities, Integrated Care Systems, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Commissioning Support Units, and IT system providers.

Leah is a Data Liaison Officer within the North West Data Liaison Service (DLS). The DLS brings together stakeholder engagement and information capabilities into a single function,offering support across a range of health and care settings including supporting NHS and care organisations in adopting and utilising nationally mandated datasets.

The DLS vision is to support providers to improve the effectiveness of nationally submitted data. DLS use a wide range of methods to support engagement acting as a single voice of the customer to raise wider, cross-cutting issues for escalation to health and care system leaders and to seek direct responses from Programs. Local health and care organisations can avoid the need for multiple repetitive conversations with different parts of organisations involved.

DLS work directly with clinicians and operational teams, programme leads and IT specialists in hospital trusts as well as GP practices, community pharmacies, local authorities, Integrated Care Systems, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Commissioning Support Units, and IT system providers.