We have a key role in supporting delivery of the public service agreements (PSAs) for 2008-11. PSAs 23, 24, 25 and 26 relate to community safety and our involvement in them is described in Delivering Public Service Agreements – the Government Office role.
Local area
agreements, strategic assessments (PDF 633 KB) and police basic
command unit plans contain crime and drug reduction targets and
priorities. We work closely with local partnerships and police forces to
ensure that these are consistent with the public service
agreements.
Partnerships based in local authorities across the region are responsible
for implementing the national crime and drugs strategies. These are usually
called community safety partnerships and drugs action teams. Their overall
objective is to reduce crime, fear of crime, anti-social behaviour and
drugs and alcohol misuse and related crime.
We help the partnerships to ensure that their planned work is in line with
strategies. We meet with individual partnerships regularly and organise
regional events to share information and explain how national policy
affects them.
We have also developed and funded a number of programmes aimed at helping
partnerships meet their targets and to meet the requirements set out in
Delivering Safer Communities: A Guide to Effective
Partnership Working.
The most recent of these are pilot projects to:
- ensure that they can access general support (for example on leadership
development, vision and values) from a package of measures
– this is likely to be provided by the Regional Improvement and
Efficiency Partnership
- provide training on the Hallmarks of Effective Partnerships (referred
to in Delivering Safer Communities: A Guide to Effective
Partnership Working) and improving the quality of strategic
assessments
- give them strategic leadership and support for regional work on
alcohol harm
reduction
- help them to access and use particular data.
For the most recent facts and figures on crime and drug use in your area:
For more information on the partnerships that work in your area and how to
contact them go to:
