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Bristol is part of an Avon and Somerset-wide Violence Reduction Unit aiming to reduce serious violence and criminal exploitation of young people. Research tells us that educational disruption is one of the most significant predictors of serious violence. Bristol City Council’s violence reduction partnership team Safer Options, have received a grant from the Avon and Somerset Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner who received this funding from the Home Office. The terms of the grant requires 6 education inclusion and youth justice prevention workers to be recruited to work with 130 children across the city at risk of exclusion and concurrent vulnerability to exploitation and violence between October 2021 and March 2022. This decision will enable us to fulfil our aspiration to reduce exclusion and contribute to the reduction in serious violence and child criminal exploitation as set out in the Safer Options plan.