London Community Safety Partnership

Report: 10
Date: 26 July 2007
By: Chief Executive

Summary

The London Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) is the regional crime reduction partnership built on the former London Crime Reduction Delivery Board. The Partnership comprises representation from local, regional and national agencies that have a key influence and contribution to make towards crime reduction and community safety work across London. It fosters more effective partnership working and co-ordination at the London-wide level, to improve the regional support given to local partnerships and to consider London’s position and responses to relevant central government initiatives. The MPS chairs the Partnership, and the MPA is a member of the Partnership and its Executive.

The Authority is asked to appoint one MPA member and one officer as representatives on LCSP.

A. Recommendation

That to appoint one MPA member and one MPA officer as representatives on LCSP.

B. Supporting information

1. The former London Crime Reduction Delivery Board (LCDRB) evolved from the strategic board, which had oversight of the implementation of the Street Crime Initiative between 2002 and 2005.

2. At the start of 2006 it carried out a critical self-review, which embraced its role, purpose and value, membership, and method of operation. The outcome was a multi agency commitment to build a new, strengthened, regional partnership mechanism.

3. The reshaped London Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) was designed to have potential to introduce a new dynamic in multi agency partnership working at a regional level in London, to sharpen the focus of regional joint working, to reduce duplication and overlap, and to improve relationships and working arrangements between the key partners.

4. The LCSP aims to;

• Represent a collective view of London agencies and articulate this in discussions with central & local government and Londoners, as well as interpreting issues for delivery at neighbourhood level.
• Consider performance trends from a pan-London perspective compare these with public confidence in crime reduction and agree joint actions for improvement. Reference will be made to PSA targets, Local Area Agreements, MPA and Mayoral plans and other strategies as appropriate
• Recognise the needs of vulnerable groups and champion solutions to identified issues.
• Respond to the priorities identified by Londoners (those who visit, live and work in the capital) and react to these issues at a national and local level
• Support CDRPs and other delivery agencies by sharing good practice and recognising barriers to effective delivery; cooperating to remove them

5. The membership of LCSP includes representation from the MPS, MPA, local authorities (including the Community Safety Lead at London Councils, the London Chief Executives Committee, and community safety practitioners), GOL, the Mayor’s Office, London Probation, the London Criminal Justice Board, the London Youth Justice Board, the National (Drugs) Treatment Agency, London Fire and Emergency planning Authority, Transport for London, British Transport Police and the Strategic Health Authority.

6. The LCSP meets bi-monthly, and has a small Executive made up of officers from MPS, GLA, ALG, MPA, GOL and London CEO’s to shape its work programmes and drive progress between meetings of the Partnership. The LCSP agreed on a strategic framework that may, over time, develop into a Community Safety Plan for London. To support the LCSP as an effective motor for multi agency working, a small secretariat has been established from seconded officers from the MPS, MPA and GOL. The GLA and ALG are also actively supporting the working groups for each of the priority themes.

7. The Deputy Commissioner chairs the Partnership, and Assistant Commissioner Godwin chairs the Executive. The MPA has been represented by Richard Barnes and Lord Tope, and by the Deputy Chief Executive. The LCSP has encouraged all partner organisations to limit representation to 2.

8. The Partnership work programme to date has focussed on four main themes, reflecting priorities indicated in consultation exercises. Those themes are:

• Robbery.
• Youth crime and victimisation – being progressed through the London Youth Crime Board.
• Anti-social behaviour and the ‘Respect Agenda’, including the impact of Safer Neighbourhood Teams and the effectiveness of local partnership working at neighbourhood level on this problem.
• Implementation of the Home Office CDRP Review across London.

9. In addition to that core work programme, the LCSP has made a submission to CSR 2007 to support individual submissions form partner agencies, has considered factors affecting crime trends in order to inform local partnership debates with a regional strategic view, and has represented London’s interests to the Home Office on emerging issues such as the CDA Review and the new APACS performance regime.

10. At the last full Authority meeting a decision on MPA representation was deferred. Given the strategic focus of the LCSP work programme, the MPA representatives at Member and Officer level need to be in a position to speak authoritatively for the MPA’s priorities and interests within the regional context, and to ensure that work done within the LCSP is used effectively to inform MPA planning processes.

C. Race and equality impact

The LCSB is committed to ensure that full consideration is given to the impact of disproportionality across all the priority themes and to actions by regional and local partners to address disproportionality.

D. Financial implications

There are no additional expenditure requirements as a result of the formation of LCSP. The secondment of an MPA officer part time to the Secretariat represents a contribution in kind by the MPA of the order of £25,000 per annum.

D. Background papers

None

E. Contact details

Report author: David Riddle, MPA

For information contact:

MPA general: 020 7202 0202
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