We are reducing violent crime across the UK and beyond, by bringing together intelligence from medical and criminal justice departments.

Jonathan Shepherd, a Cardiff University professor and maxillofacial surgeon, noticed he was treating more and more assault victims with broken jaws and cheekbones.

After recognising that 65% of these cases weren't known to the police, Professor Shepherd established the Cardiff Violence Prevention Group to explore this further.

Reducing violence in Cardiff

'The Cardiff Model' helped achieve big cuts in community violence across Cardiff:

• year on year decreases in violence-related admissions to Cardiff's emergency unit
• 39% reduction in violence inside licensed premises
• 42% reduction in hospital admissions and violence recorded by the police, relative to 14 similar UK cities
• Circa £5million saved per year on Cardiff's health, social and criminal justice costs between 2003-2006

A global impact

'The Cardiff Model' has now been introduced across communities in Jamaica, Australia and the United States of America.

In 2016 the World Health Organization (WHO) published a report entitled ‘INSPIRE; Seven strategies for ending violence against children’, which aims to inform WHO member states on how to best tackle violence against children. Within this report, the WHO publicly advocate for the worldwide use of ‘The Cardiff Model’ as a means of achieving this goal.