Reports

The following are brief descriptions of WAVE's reports. You can open the report in another window by clicking on its title on this page, or navigate to the report by using the menus at the top or side of this page.

Draft Budget 2012-13 - Call for Evidence
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Scrutiny of the Forthcoming Spending Review and Draft Budget 2012-13: Preventative Spending

General Call for Evidence – Response of WAVE Trust

The Committee has invited responses to the following questions:

 
Making Sense of Early Intervention
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This Centre for Social Justice briefing paper provides a framework for early intervention for professionals taking crucial commissioning and funding decisions at the local authority level. It distills key common threads from the plethora of recent reports on the pressing need for this approach.

 
The WAVE Report 2005: Violence and what to do about it
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Our seminal work - this report represents the culmination of 9 years of research into and study of the root causes of violent behaviour.

 
International experience of early intervention for children, young people and their families (2010)
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Our recent rapid review of international practices relating to early interventions to improve outcomes for children.

 
Working together to reduce serious youth violence (2008)
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This summarises the findings and recommendations of a London Conference on reducing serious youth violence hosted by WAVE Trust In November 2007. 

 
Early Intervention - Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens (2008)
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WAVE drafted this first ever joint Labour/Conservative publication. It was published jointly by the Centre for Social Justice and the Smith Institute on behalf of the Rt.Hon. Iain Duncan Smith and Graham Allen, Labour MP for Nottingham North.

 
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Violence
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This report concludes PTSD is a common consequence of childhood sexual and physical abuse. It reviews treatment methodologies and shows that treating PTSD has a beneficial impact on outcomes with violent prisoners.