Community Safety Partnership

Keeping people safe is at the very heart of public service life.

Safer and Stronger Together, has been born through working with Bury’s biggest strength, our local communities.

It sets out how the Bury Community Safety Partnership will work together, as statutory agencies with partners, and crucially, with communities across the borough, to keep people safe from harm; to reduce risk and vulnerability; to collaborate on opportunities to make people feel more resilient and able to thrive; and to provide an united front to those seeking to cause harm to others.

The Community Safety Partnership is committed to working together to make Bury the very place to call home, to study and work in, to socialise and visit. By tailoring and targeting activity, this strategy sets out to tackle hotspots of crime and harm; to embed prevention and early intervention in partnership with local places, to support communities to be increasingly resilient and to go further than that, to thrive. We are, and always will be, safer and stronger together, and call upon all partners and communities to join us in delivering this strategy

Community safety isn’t the responsibility of any one agency, and community safety matters don’t exist in isolation from wider social factors.

As such this strategy sets out the approach and collective interventions that the partnership will come together around, to provide an increasingly collaborative approach to safety.

This approach is central to Bury’s LET’S Do It! approach and this plan is guided by those principles. The Partnership will maximise the connectivity of Bury into the wider Greater Manchester region whilst ensuring activity is tailored to the specific insight, risks and opportunity of the Borough, and moreover targeted, focused and reflective of characteristics of particular neighbourhoods and specific locations.

Through dialogue with local partners and communities across Bury, together with a review of evidence of threat, harm and risks to the Borough, a set of strategic priorities have been identified, against which the CSP will have a relentless focus on over the next three years. Initial areas of focus are detailed against each priority to provide the framework upon which the partnership will focus; though the CSP will continue to assess insight (data, knowledge, community intelligence, and research) in order to ensure any emerging risks, or opportunities, are responded to in a timely and cohesive manner.

Community Safety Partnership

Bury's Community Safety Partnership (CSP) is a multi-agency group set up under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. The Partnership approach is built on the premise that no single agency can deal with, or be responsible for dealing with, complex community safety issues and that these issues can be addressed more effectively and efficiently through working in partnership. Partners that contribute to the CSP are:

• Greater Manchester Police
• Bury Council
• Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service
• Probation Service
• Community Rehabilitation Company,
• Youth Offending Service
• NHS Greater Manchester (Bury)
• Public Health
• Bury Voluntary and Community Faith Alliance

Bury has a strong record of working together on community safety initiatives, whether this be multi-agency collaborations to enforcement, or joint engagement activity on crime and hate prevention. Within recent years examples of such joint work and achievements include:

• The Bury Alliance - a community led Violence Reduction Programme in Moorside
• Successful Safer Streets Round 5 bid with investment in new CCTV cameras and provision; public guardianship scheme in Bury Town Centre and environmental improvements
• Establishment of Multi Agency Walkabouts including Housing Services, TravelSafe, Bury College, Early Break, Achieve Assertive Outreach and GMP.
• Secured Domestic Abuse refuge provision in the Borough
• Bury Council received White Ribbon accreditation on tackling gender-based violence
• Over £250k of Standing Together investment into community initiatives
• Purple Flag reaccreditation and Best Bar None introduced into Night Time Economy
• Safe delivery of community events including Bury Mela
• Introduction of the Family Safeguarding Model into Bury
• Engagement with Community Security Trust to bring Safety Advice for Everyone in person training into Bury
• Return of Collabor8 – celebrating Bury’s communities to further cohesion
• Partnership activity through Bury Business Improvement District, local schools, Bury Art Museum and TravelSafe in hosting the Knife Angel in Bury to increase awareness of the dangers of knife crime, particularly promoting prevention amongst young people
• Seizure of hundreds of thousands of pounds of illicit tobacco, vapes and millions of pounds worth of drugs taken off/ prevented from reaching the streets of Bury.
• First Clear Hold Build initiative in the region outside of the City of Manchester through Operation REVOKE

We recognise there remains more to be done.

In developing the new strategy for the partnership insight and input has been sourced through a combination of structured and organic 11 means - from continuous dialogue with partners and embedding input from community conversations, to linking through feedback to broader engagement activity.

During the summer and autumn of 2024 this has included specific dialogue with and through local partnerships, networks and with local residents, to shape and refine local priorities, by bringing together this insight alongside partnership data and knowledge. In total over a thousand people have been involved.

This has included conversations with communities of place, identity and experience, including engagement at Hoyles Park family fun day to street-level engagement outside supermarkets in Whitefield and Prestwich; from discussions at Circles of Influence with young residents in the borough to inputs through the Older People’s Network; from Cohesion Round tables to over 650 individuals completing an online or printed survey.

It is through this work that a series of core principles and key priorities have been shaped for delivery through this strategy.

Through partnership consideration of qualitative and quantitative insight, including community conversations, a set of strategic priorities have been identified to be the focus for Bury CSP over the coming three year period:

• Tackling offences against children
• Prevention of, and earlier intervention on, serious violence
• Domestic Abuse in the context of the trio of vulnerability
• Supporting and safeguarding cohesive communities
• Ensuring resilient, safer places and spaces