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Background:

This report provided information on the operation of the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) from April to October 2014, the findings of the strategic assessment and the proposed action plan for 2015/2016.

It was noted that Section 6 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 placed obligations on Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships, also known as CSPs, to produce a Community Safety Plan to formulate and implement a strategy to reduce crime and disorder, combat substance misuse, and reduce re-offending.

The current Community Safety Plan covered the period 2013 to 2016 and formed part of the Council’s Policy Framework. Adopted in 2013 it identified five priorities:

• Tackle substance and alcohol abuse;
• Tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) and Envirocrime;
• Reduce re-offending;
• Tackle domestic abuse; and
• Reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in Road Traffic Collisions.

Performance against these priorities since April 2014 was set out within the Action Plan, appended at Appendix 1 to the report and the key findings of the strategic assessment were noted in the report.

The proposed action plan for the financial year 2015/2016 was set out at Appendix 2 to the report and a briefing note on the scoring matrix used to assess priorities was circulated separately in Supplementary Agenda No.2.

It was noted that a refreshed Diversity Impact Assessment screening form had been completed and was attached at Appendix 3 to the report.This indicated that the Community Safety Plan complied with the requirements of the legislation.

It was also noted that, as part of the development of this report, statutory partners had submitted updates on the Action Plan and also contributed to the Strategic Assessment. Members of the public were consulted through Community Engagement events; the results of which fed into the Strategic Assessment.

The Regeneration, Community and Culture Overview and Scrutiny Committee had considered this report on 18 December 2014 and details of the points raised by the Committee were set out in section 6 of the report.

Reasons:

The Community Safety Plan discharges the Council’s statutory requirement to produce a plan for community safety.