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StopGlasgow s Community Initiative to Reduce ViolenceSecond Year ReportthestopCIRV was introduced to tacklehead-on the territorial gang violencethat has blighted communities inGlasgow for decades; violence thathas damaged the city s CIRV programme has in two yearsdemonstrated our ability to work incollaboration towards better outcomesfor some of the most disadvantagedindividuals and communities in theUK. It has evolved to fit with theGlasgow experience of street gangsand, as the ongoing independentevaluation is beginning todemonstrate, has had additional widersocial advantages of violencereduction which are also beginning tobe felt in these communities: CIRVnow attracts positive comment frommembers of the community,commentators and the agencies andgroups delivering the the outset, we said that eachagency and group doing what theyhad always done in response to gangviolence was not good enough: I am delighted to present the second year report for Glasgow sCommunity Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV), the ViolenceReduction Unit s gang intervention programme.

2 Evaluating initiatives such as CIRV is a real challenge. They are not neat, randomised trials undertaken in a controlled environment, rather they are real world responses to a complicated, challenging

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