37 Community Safety Partnership Annual Report (00.30.19) PDF 350 KB
To consider a report of the Group Manager for Public Health and Regulatory Services providing the Committee with a progress report of the Community Safety Partnership.
Minutes:
The Group Manager for Public Health and Regulatory Services outlined the contents of the *report and gave an overview to new members on what the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) was and who the key members were. He explained why the partnership was required and how it was funded.
He explained that the report was retrospective annual review on the activities and performance of the partnership during 2018-19. Nonetheless, it also outlines and the ongoing challenges of embedded behaviours and the issues with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and continuing priorities to consider high threat issues including drug networks, child sexual exploitation, domestic abuse and modern slavery in addition to anti-social behaviour
He informed Members that updated legislation would put further legal responsibilities on the CSP with regard to violent crimes such as knife crime and these must be incorporated within the future strategy for the partnership.
Members were interested to know how the CSP dealt with the issue of county lines and he explained that a key area of the work of the CSP was intelligence sharing. He explained that there were issues of county lines activity within Tiverton and sharing of intelligence across agencies such as housing, environmental health at MDDC and the police were helping to combat this.
With regard to the budget he explained that the Council looked to deliver the CSP within budget, however there was a small ear marked reserve to enable the Council to fund unexpected issues.
Members discussed the tensions within Cullompton in recent months and the Group Manager for Public Health and Regulatory Services explained that the focus of the CSP had been on rented properties with a high turnover of tenants and the rogue landlord initiative.
The Committee NOTED the progress of the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) in delivering activities against partnership priorities and action plan for 2018-2019.
Note: Report previously circulated and attached to the minutes.