The Community & Partnerships Scrutiny Committee was scheduled to meet to scrutinise the Community Safety Partnership, and to review its work programme. The committee was also scheduled to receive updates on actions agreed at previous meetings.

Community Safety Partnership

The committee was scheduled to scrutinise the work of the Community Safety Partnership (CSP), including a review of 2024/25, and to look at the emerging priorities of the new Community Safety Strategy.

The report pack included a Community Safety Partnership Report, which summarised the progress made by the CSP in delivering the priorities of the Community Safety Strategy. The report stated that local authorities have a statutory duty to scrutinise CSPs under the Police and Justice Act 2006.

The report noted that the standalone CSP, Safer MK, was stood down in March 2025, as its functions were being delivered effectively through the MK Together Partnership arrangements. The statutory role of CSP is now fulfilled by the MK Together Safeguarding Partnership (MKTSP), which is chaired by Chief Supt Emma Baillie.

The report also stated that a new strategy, informed by feedback from residents and a full strategic needs assessment, was under development, and would incorporate the serious violence strategy required by the Serious Violence Duty¹.

The report pack included the Community Safety Strategy 2022-2026, which stated that SaferMK is the statutory Community Safety Partnership for Milton Keynes, bringing agencies together to formulate and implement the strategy for tackling local crime and community safety issues.

The report stated that the strategy serves as a commitment by community safety partners to work together to maximise the impact on safety in the agreed areas of priority, and is informed by the Community Safety Partnership's strategic assessment conducted in 2021.

The report also included the Final Serious Violence Strategy 2022-2025, which stated that the new Serious Violence Duty requires all community safety partnerships to agree a strategy to reduce serious violence. The definition of serious violence set out by the Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit is:

Serious Violence against the person including murder, manslaughter, and assault with intent to cause serious harm. Crimes that meet the knife crime threshold include anywhere a knife is used or threatened to be used but does not include possession of a bladed article .

The Serious Violence Duty places obligations on community safety partnerships to work together to prevent serious violence by or against people under the age of 25.

The report pack also included the MKCSSVSNA Exec Summary, which was a condensed version of the full Community Safety and Serious Violence Combined Strategic Needs Assessment (SNA).

The key points for consideration by the committee were scheduled to be progress in delivering the current strategy and emerging themes for the forthcoming iteration of the strategy. The CSP has received regular updates on progress made against the priorities in the strategy, namely:

• Domestic Abuse
• Weapon enabled crime and youth violence
• Violence against women and girls
• Online radicalisation/Prevent[^3]
• Anti-social behaviour

The emerging themes for the new strategy 2025-28 were scheduled to be:

• Domestic abuse
• Violence against women and girls
• Countering radicalisation and online harm
• Antisocial behaviour
• Retail and acquisitive crime
• Serious violence

The strategy was scheduled to include modern day slavery and hate crime as areas for monitoring.

Action Tracker

The committee was scheduled to receive and note the Recommendations Tracker and information regarding outcomes agreed at previous meetings.

The CPSC Action Tracker included updates on the MKCC Sports Strategy 2025-30 and the Delivery of Placemaking Objectives and Projects in Central Milton Keynes by Milton Keynes Development Partnership.

Work Programme

The committee's 2025/26 Work Programme was attached for information.

The CPSC Work Programme 25-26 V2 Sep25 included the following agenda items:

• Milton Keynes Sports Strategy 2025-2030
• MKDP
• Community Safety Partnership
• A Strong and Robust Economy
• Creative and Cultural Strategy
• MKCC Sports Strategy Delivery Plan
• Building a Strategic Relationship with the VC Sector
• Partnership Working (Regeneration)