Violence prevention framework: annual progress report 2024/2025
The Violence Prevention Framework (2023) for Scotland sets out a comprehensive range of activity to prevent violence from happening in the first place and to reduce the impact when it does. This report highlights the progress that has been made over 2024 to 2025 with partners on our shared programme.
Conclusions
The activity recorded in this update highlights the work which has been taken forward in 2024/2025 by partners to implement the Violence Prevention Framework. It summarises some of the progress being achieved against the actions during the second year of implementation of this three-year programme. It also shows how the £6 million of funding provided since the publication of the Framework in 2023 by the Scottish Government is being deployed to support delivery of a wide range of partner activities to deliver some critical and often grassroots work to prevent violence over 2024/2025. While good progress is being made in a number of important areas, there is still much more to be done to fully deliver on the actions and vision set out in the Violence Prevention Framework.
Over 2025/2026, the Scottish Government and its partners are continuing to focus on prevention and early intervention and will provide an update of that activity in our next, and third, annual progress report in 2026.
We will continue to direct effort and spending to achieve the aims of the Framework so that more communities across Scotland are safe and that more people live free from violence and the threat of violence.
Contact
Email: katrina.mcdonald@gov.scot