High Cost Interventions
2. Educational Awareness Programmes
Educational awareness programmes are school and community-based interventions designed to prevent violence, exploitation, and abuse by equipping young people with knowledge, skills, and confidence. These programmes cover topics such as consent, healthy relationships, bystander intervention, online safety, gang exploitation, and gender-based violence. Delivered through workshops, assemblies, peer mentoring, and interactive media, they aim to shift attitudes, build resilience, and reduce risk behaviours.
Outcomes include increased disclosures, improved safeguarding, reduced tolerance of violence, and enhanced community cohesion.
Curriculum Development: £5,000-£15,000
Facilitator Training: £10,000-£20,000 pa
Session Delivery: £15,000-£30,000 pa
Materials & Resources: £3,000-£6,000
Monitoring & Evaluation: £5,000-£10,000
Total: £38,000-£81,000
Planning & Co-Design: 1-2 months
Staff Training: 1 month
Pilot Sessions: 1-2 months
Full Rollout: Ongoing
Total: 3-6 months
Staff Salaries & Training: £15,000-£30,000
Resource Updates & Printing: £3,000-£5,000
Monitoring & Evaluation: £5,000-£10,000
Outreach & Engagement: £2,000-£5,000
Total Annual Maintenance Cost: £25,000-£50,000
Effectiveness
Highly effective, where the Mentors in Violence Prevention program showed significant improvements instudents' attitudes towards violence prevention, gender stereotypic, and willingness to intervene as bystanders.
The Growing Against Violence initiative reached over 26 ountries, reducing gang involvement and peer exploitation. A meta-analysis of 38 studies found that educational interventions targeting relationship violence led to statistically significant reductions in violence in some cases, especially when delivered over time with peer-led components.
Comprehensive sexuality education has been shown to reduce risk factors for sexual violence perpetration.