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  • 03 March 2020

Gwent Police roll out PPN workshops

Public Protection Notice (PPN) workshops have been rolled out to Police Officers across Gwent following a successful pilot phase that showed significant improvement of the quality of information recorded and sent to social services

  • 08 January 2020

North Wales Police recognised for outstanding contributions to society

North Wales Police have been recognised for their outstanding work and contributions to society through the work of the Early Action Together Programme.

  • 08 January 2020

Gwent Police launch multi agency support and safeguarding hub

From November 11th 2019, all child safety referrals in Torfaen will be dealt with by a Multi-Agency Support and Safeguarding Hub (MASSH) based in Pontypool.

  • 19 December 2019

New survey shows both good Welsh public sector awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and opportunities for improvement

A new report examines the findings of a Public Health Wales online survey conducted in May and June 2019.

  • 12 November 2019

An introduction to the All-Wales Violence Prevention Unit (VPU)

A collaborative unit is currently being developed with the ambition of preventing all forms of violence across Wales

  • 10 September 2019

Building an ACE Aware Nation in Wales - Understanding the Contribution of Welsh Research

Early Action Together is attending the ACE Support Hub research conference at Aberystwyth University, 11-12 September 2019

  • 24 July 2019

Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime meets with Early Action Together Police & Partner leads to learn about their work on serious violence prevention

Sophie Linden, Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime visited Newport Central Police Station on Friday 12 July to meet with police and partner leads of the Early Action Together Programme

  • 26 June 2019

Trauma Informed Prisons Project (TIPP)

In October 2018, HMPPS including HMP/YOI Parc embarked on a trauma informed prisons project (TIPP) with the vision of developing a sustainable trauma informed approach across prisons in Wales and to address vulnerabilities linked to ACEs within the prison population

  • 26 June 2019

LEPH 2019 Major Session Proposal

The Early Action Together research team, led by the National Research Lead for Public Health and Policing, Dr Michelle Mc Manus, have been invited to present a major session at this year’s LEPH 2019 conference in Glasgow

  • 24 June 2019

Gwent Police

As of the beginning of May 2019, more than 900 police officers and staff have now completed the ACE training