Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership

Community Safety Agreement2015-18

Contents

Foreword 3

Introduction & Context to AgreementIntroduction to Lincolnshire 4Legislative Background and Purpose of the Agreement 4

Lincolnshire Community Safety StructuresAbout the Community Safety Structures 6About the Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership 6About the Strategic Management Boards 6About Emerging Issues 7About Information and Analysis 7Wider Structures 8

Strategic PrioritiesStrategic Priority Process 9Anti-Social Behaviour & Hate Crime 10Domestic Abuse 11Reducing Offending 12Serious & Organised Crime 13Sexual Violence 14Substance Misuse 15

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Foreword

Anti-Social Behaviour & Hate Crime Domestic Abuse Reducing Offending Serious and Organised Crime Sexual Violence Substance Misuse

The final section provides an overview of the outcomes we aim to achieve for each of our priorities.

The community safety landscape has recently undergone, and continues to experience, a period of change. As a partnership we will work to ensure we are prepared to meet the changing environment in which we work.

Members of the Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership remain committed to working together, building on our successes over the past few years and ensuring that Lincolnshire continues to be a safe place to live, work and visit.

Pete MooreChair of the Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership

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Welcome to the 2015-18 Community Safety Agreement for Lincolnshire. The Agreement sets out how we determined our priorities for the Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership and details how we structure the partnership to ensure we target the areas identified with maximum effect. Our 2015-18 priorities are:

Introduction & Context to Agreement

Introduction to LincolnshireLincolnshire is in the East Midlands region. It is a two-tier authority area with Lincolnshire County Council and seven districts; Boston Borough, City of Lincoln, East Lindsey, North Kesteven, South Holland, South Kesteven and West Lindsey. Lincolnshire’s population currently stands at an estimated 736,7001 people and is expected to increase between 2011 and 2031 by 116,000. It is projected that the proportion of people over 75 years of age will increase by 95% between 2014 and 2039.

The total number of recorded crimes for the Lincolnshire area (2016/2017) has increased by 4% compared to the previous year. One of the largest percentage increases was in violence without injury crimes. Both burglary and theft from the person crimes have seen a decrease in Lincolnshire compared to the previous year. However, there was been a national increase in recorded crime in 2016/2017 and Lincolnshire's percentage increase in crime is less than both the regional and national increase.

Legislative Background and Purpose of the AgreementIn November 2004 the Government announced a review of the partnership provisions of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in the police reform White Paper - Building Communities, Beating Crime. The review was conducted to reflect the changes to partnership working since Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) were first created in 1998. As a result of the review, legislative changes were brought in by the Police and Justice Act 2006 and subsequent regulations came in to force in August 2007. The regulations set out the minimum requirements for partnership working to ensure effective practice and that all partnerships deliver to a common standard. These are outlined under the ‘Hallmarks of Effective Partnerships’2.

1 Office for National Statistics 2015 (ONS) Mid-Year Population Estimates2 ‘Delivering Safer Communities: A Guide to Effective Partnership Working’, Home Office (2007)

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In two-tier areas the regulations require a county-level group to be established. This is referred to in the legislation as a ‘County Strategy Group’ and known in Lincolnshire as the Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership. The partnership is also the informally merged Community Safety Partnership for the county. Within the regulations it is the partnerships responsibility to prepare and implement a Community Safety Agreement. The regulations state that the Agreement must identify:

The county-wide community safety priorities that arise from the strategic assessment and that require escalating to the county level.

Ways of co-ordinating across the county to address priorities. How the responsible authorities might otherwise contribute to reducing

crime, disorder and substance misuse through closer joint working across the county.

In response to the first bullet point, a joint strategic assessment is produced in Lincolnshire; more details of which can be found on page 10. The Delivery Plans produced by the Strategic Management Boards demonstrate how activity is co-ordinated across the county and how partners are working together to deliver this. These can be viewed in Appendices to this document.

The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 introduced elected Police & Crime Commissioners (PCCs) for each police force area outside of London. The current PCC was elected in 2016. PCCs are responsible for developing a Police & Crime Plan (PCP) for their local area and for commissioning community safety and criminal justice services.

The Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership, in producing this Community Safety Agreement, and the PCC, in producing the PCP, have a duty under the legislation to have due regard to each other's plans.

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Lincolnshire Community Safety Structures

About the Community Safety StructuresThe diagram on page 8 provides a visual representation of the community safety structure agreed to ensure delivery against the priorities during 2015-18. This is an evolution of previous structures, building on existing good practice and ensuring that the partnership remains able to deliver in the most effective manner. The elements that make up the structure are explained more fully below:

About the Lincolnshire Community Safety PartnershipThe Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) is made up of 14 voting members; each of the seven district councils, the county council, the Police & Crime Commissioner, Police, Clinical Commissioning Groups, National Probation Service, Community Rehabilitation Company and Fire & Rescue. There are in addition a number of partners around the table including Chairs of the 6 Strategic Management Boards, Magistrates Court, Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the Prisons in Lincolnshire. The LCSP meets all the statutory requirements.

About the Strategic Management BoardsThe Strategic Management Boards (SMBs) have been established as the co-ordination groups for each of the countywide community safety priorities. The role of the SMBs is to identify local, regional and national best practice that could be implemented or rolled out further in some or all parts of Lincolnshire. The SMBs role is also about developing consistent approaches across the county in tackling or responding to specific community safety issues. Each SMB is responsible for formulating and implementing a Delivery Plan. As previously mentioned, the 2015-18 plans for each of the SMBs have been included as appendices, though it should be noted these are live plans and will be continuously updated over the three year period.

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About Emerging IssuesEmerging issues has been included on the diagram in recognition that community safety is a changing landscape. All agencies are encouraged to bring any new or developing issues to the partnership in order to share information and, where appropriate, for joint responses to be agreed and implemented.

About Information and AnalysisPlease see further information on these cross cutting themes under the Strategic Priorities section.

Wider StructuresWhilst the circular diagram illustrates the strategic structure established by the Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership for fulfilling its statutory duties and delivery against the agreed priorities, it is recognised that there are wider relationships with bodies with overlapping agendas. Over the past couple of years, work has been undertaken to ensure that the relationships are fully embedded, communication is effective and there is no duplication of effort. For example, the Substance Misuse Strategic Management Board reports to both the Lincolnshire Community Safety Partnership and the Health & Wellbeing Board. In addition, some of the Strategic Management Boards have delivery groups reporting to them to address specific work streams. A Public Protection Board has also been established. The purpose of this is to bring together all boards working in public protection with the aim of enhancing synergies and eliminating duplication.

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Strategic Priorities

Strategic Priorities ProcessThe Lincolnshire County Strategic Assessment was completed in December 2014. The assessment drew on data held by a number of partners and also included horizon scanning of emerging issues with input from a wide range of stakeholders.

In January 2015 an event took place to determine the priorities for the three year period 2015-18. The partnership have moved to a three year cycle in recognition that re-visiting the priorities each year undermined the partnerships ability to take a longer term approach in tackling significant underlying issues across the county. During the first half of the day, members of the LCSP met with a broad range of experts to gain a more in-depth understanding of the issues brought out in the strategic assessment. This was followed in the afternoon with members agreeing the priorities that the LCSP should focus on; these are:

Anti-Social Behaviour and Hate Crime Domestic Abuse Reducing Offending Serious and Organised Crime Sexual Violence Substance Misuse

The event also highlighted information and analysis as a barrier to success and the LCSP agreed to take this as a cross cutting theme and offer strategic leadership across the county to tackle this challenge.

The following provides a summary of the delivery plans for the strategic priority areas. More details can be found the supporting appendices.

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Anti-Social Behaviour & Hate Crime

Anti-Social Behaviour Overarching Outcome:

Lincolnshire experiences less anti-social behaviour

Anti-Social Behaviour Sub Outcomes:

Improved response to vulnerable victims of anti-social behaviour. The use of the new powers and tools introduced by the Anti-Social

Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 are embedded within partner organisations.

Provide a balanced response to perpetrators of anti-social behaviour based around rehabilitation and enforcement.

Encourage a problem solving approach to identified locations affected by anti-social behaviour.

Hate Crime Overarching Outcome:

Improved response to reports of Hate Crime and Hate Incidents

Hate Crime Sub Outcomes:

Achieve a better understanding of Hate Crime and Hate Incidents in Lincolnshire

Increased awareness of Hate Crime and Hate Incidents. Increased confidence in reporting of Hate Crime and Hate Incidents. Tailored support and advice for victims of Hate Crime and Hate Incidents. Reduction in the risk from Hate Crime and Hate Incidents to victims,

perpetrators and communities.

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Domestic Abuse

Overarching Outcome:

Lincolnshire creates a culture where domestic abuse will not be tolerated

Sub Outcomes:

Reduction in the number of people in Lincolnshire who experience domestic abuse

Reduction in the length and severity of abuse suffered by victims of domestic abuse

Reduction in the number of perpetrators of domestic abuse A full partnership profile of domestic abuse in Lincolnshire and intervention

embedded within agencies policies, procedures and practice

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Reducing Offending

Overarching Outcome:

Lincolnshire experiences an overall reduction in offending and reoffending which in turn creates safer communities, better family cohesion and enhances public protection

Sub Outcomes:

Implement measures to effectively tackle the complex needs of some offenders.

Deliver an innovative approach to preventing young people from reoffending.

Explore measures to improve the transition from youth to adult Criminal Justice Services.

Effective delivery of the AAMR Sobriety tagging in Lincolnshire to effectively tackle alcohol related offences.

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Serious & Organised Crime

Overarching Outcome:

Reduce the level of serious and organised crime

Sub Outcomes:

Protect individuals and communities at the risk of becoming victims Prosecute and disrupt people engaged in serious and organised crime Prevent individuals engaging in serious and organised crime Reduce the impact of serious and organised activity where it takes place

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Sexual Violence

Outcomes:

Residents of Lincolnshire are free from the threat of sexual violence and abuse

Sub Outcomes:

Prevent Sexual Violence and Abuse Provide quality services Pursue perpetrators Partnership working

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Substance Misuse

Outcomes:

Prevent alcohol and drug related harm

Sub Outcomes:

Promoting responsible drinking Reduce alcohol and drug related crime and anti-social behaviour Deliver high quality alcohol and drug treatment systems Drug and Alcohol prevention

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