Committee details

Community Safety Partnership Working Party

Purpose of committee

COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP WORKING PARTY TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR 2016/17

 

A. TERMS OF REFERENCE

 

General

 

The purpose of the working party was to scrutinise key community safety issues in Thanet and make recommendations to the Community Safety Partnership through the Overview & Scrutiny Panel.

 

Membership, Chairmanship and Quorum

 

Number of Members

Seven

Political Composition

3 UKIP

2 Conservative

1 Labour

1 Independent Group

Substitute Members Permitted

Yes

Political Balance Rules apply*

Yes

Appointments/Removals from Office

By the Overview and Scrutiny Panel 

Restrictions on Membership

Non-Executive Members only

Restrictions on Chairmanship

None

Quorum

Four

Number of ordinary meetings per Council Year

Meetings will be called as required and as reflected in the work programme below

 

Terms of reference

 

The full terms of reference for the working party are given below under the Crime and Disorder (Overview & Scrutiny) Regulations 2009, hereby attached.

 

The scope of the group for 2016/17 will be specifically to review the performance of the Community Safety Partnership with regards to implementing the following key themes:

 

1.  Reducing Re-offending;

 

2.  Safeguarding our most vulnerable people;

 

3.  Community Confidence and Agency Collaboration.

 

Delegations

 

None

 

Notes

This working party was established in principle by the decision of the Overview & Scrutiny Panel on 01 October 2009. These terms of reference were agreed by the Overview & Scrutiny Panel on 24 May 2016 and later reviewed on 16 August 2016.

 

*NB: The Overview & Scrutiny Panel unanimously agreed to disregard political proportionality in establishing membership to this sub group.

Membership

Contact information

Support officer: Charles Hungwe.

Postal address:
Thanet District Council
Cecil Street
P.O. Box 9
Margate, Kent
CT9 1XZ

Phone: 01843 577186