Purpose

Community
Safety Partnerships are required under the Crime and Disorder Act
(1998) to ensure a strategic plan is in place, to address crime and
disorder locally. The current plan ended in 2024 and a new plan has
been developed for 2025-2028.

The responsible authorities (Council, Fire Service, Police
Service, Probation, NHS ICB) are required to work together in
partnership to tackle crime and disorder locally: driving delivery
of crime reduction strategies and initiatives via the Community
Safety Partnership Board.

This item presents the Community Safety Partnership plan:
formulated using the findings from the Annual Strategic Assessment
and the relevant recommendations, engagement with professionals and
wider consultation with our local residents (including children,
young people and young adults).
 

Content

1.    
that the Community Safety Partnership Plan 2025-29 is
recommended to proceed to the next meeting of Full Council as per
the Council Constitution.

Reasons for the decision

Community Safety
Partnerships are required under the Crime and Disorder Act (1998)
to ensure a strategic plan is in place to address crime and
disorder locally. The current plan has ended and a new plan is
being developed for 2025 - 2029. As the Community Safety plan is a
partnership document listed in the Constitution, it is reserved for
final decision by full Council subject to prior approval by
Cabinet. 

Alternative options considered

There is a
statutory responsibility for Community Safety Partnerships to
produce a Community Safety Partnership Plan, detailing how crime
and disorder will be addressed locally. Under the Council
Constitution, it is the role of Full Council to ratify that
Plan.