Safety Nets (Crime and Safety)

Recognise the community and voluntary sector as a source and valuable resource in communicating information helping to achieve positive impact on perceptions of crime and safety.

Improve and strengthen partnership working between voluntary and statutory sectors who deliver services on the ground. This involves building upon community and voluntary sector expertise in effectively responding to people particularly in times of crisis, fear or danger and working more strategically together to lever in additional funding for crime reduction related projects.

Priority 3

Improve the information flow across sectors and address communication gaps, e.g. induct staff from all sectors in the services provided by others and provide guidance for statutory agencies about how to engage with the CVS (Working Together Project produced such guidance in the past).

The community and voluntary sector campaign to make the existing structures more accountable (such as the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership) identifying gaps and using influence to prioritise these.

Priority 1

Better resourcing and recognition for Tenant Managed Organisations who provide people with oopportunities to take control of their own lives and face up to their responsibilities as citizens

Priority 2

Champion a bottom up approach to tackling social problems. Responses that take the root cause of problems into account and support networks/initiatives that encourage social bonds and help to build trust are more likely to be sustainable.

Priority 3

Strengthen Local Action Teams to enable them to take action and provide local solutions: successes should be shared and replicated.

Priority 4

Devolve resources to neighbourhoods outside the centre of the city to tackle low level anti social behaviour problems such as grafitti, littering, noise nuisance and vandalism. Communities that look under cared for are perceived to be unsafe which impacts upon residents feeling isolated, frustrated and detached from their local community.

Priority 1 

Resources go where there is evidence of crime and where the outcomes can be achieved. This inherently disadvantages some of the most vulnerable groups of people who tend to underreport hate crimes (racist, homophobic, domestic and sexual violence). 

Priority 2

Recognise and gather intelligence around CVS work behind the scenes in supporting people to report interpersonal violence and hate crimes

Priority 3

Campaign for a local rape crisis and sexual assault reporting and counselling service

Priority 4