Agenda and minutes

Councillor Campbell proposed, Councillor Curran seconded and Members agreed that Councillor Bambridge be the Chairman of the Community Safety Partnership Working Party.

Councillor Bambridge in the chair.

Apologies were received from Councillor Elenor.

There were no declarations of interest made at the meeting.

To approve the Minutes of the Community Safety Partnership Working Party meeting held on 3 March 2015, copy attached.

Councillor Campbell proposed, Councillor Curran seconded and Members agreed to take the minutes as read to be a true record of the meeting of the Community Safety Partnership Working Party that took place on 9 March 2015.

Martyn Cassell, Community Safety & Leisure Manager made a presentation that provided some orientation to Members of the working party and assisted in familiarising Members with the work of the group and the Community Safety Partnership. He said that the Community Safety Partnership was made up of seven statutory agencies that included Kent Police, National Probation Service, Thanet Clinical Commissioning Group, Kent County Council (Social Services), Kent, Surrey & Sussex CRC, Thanet District Council and other non-statutory organisations.

Mr Cassell said that there was an Executive Group, whose task was strategic planning and met quarterly. This forum would produce the annual community safety plan. There was also a Casework Panel made up of selected professionals whose responsibility was to deliberate on information that would help with the work of implementing an effective community safety plan.

The work of the Community Safety Partnership Working Party is to review the performance of the Partnership in implementing the safety plan and commenting on draft plans for the forthcoming year. Mr Cassell advised Members that during this municipal year there were four key priorities that the Partnership would focus on. These were as follows:

i)  Safeguarding people vulnerable to committing or being a victim of crime;

ii)  Reducing Re-offending;

iii)  Tackling the drivers of crime and Anti-Social Behaviour;

iv)  Engaging with partners and the community.

Members noted the report.

Councillor Campbell proposed, Councillor Dixon seconded and Members agreed that the four priorities highlighted in the presentation would become the new terms of reference of the Community Safety Partnership Working Party.

Members agreed to consider reports as part of monitoring the implementation of the Community Safety Partnership Plan in the following order for 2015-16:

Priority 3 - Tackling the drivers of crime and Anti-Social Behaviour.

Priority 3 would be considered at the next meeting of the sub-group to be held in the first two weeks of September 2015. Kent Police will be invited to the meeting to assist with the discussion.

Priority 1 - Safeguarding people vulnerable to committing or being a victim of crime.

Priority 1 will be considered next after Priority 3.

Priority 2 - Reducing Re-offending.

Priority 2 will be reported on at the third meeting of the sub-group.

Priority 4 - Engaging with partners and the community.

Priority 4 will be considered last. Mr Cassell will provide a summary of each of these four priorities and the actions related to each of them. He also advised Members that there was a need to have a meeting in February 2016 so that the working party could comment on the draft Community Safety Partnership Plan for the following year.

This item was considered in conjunction with minute item 88.