Priority 1 - Protect and support vulnerable people
This priority reflects our core business and recognises the range of needs that many vulnerable people who come into contact with partner agencies have, so that we create a more person-centred approach to vulnerability and victimisation.
As such, we would like to see significant progress in some specific crime types such as Modern Slavery but also see improvements in outcomes for vulnerable individuals involved in any crime type or antisocial behaviour. In this approach we are prioritising children and vulnerable adults as our focus of safeguarding.
Who will deliver this?
Domestic Abuse Strategic Group, Domestic Abuse Forum, Community Safety Partnership.
This contributes to Priorities 1, 2 & 3 from the GM Standing Together Plan.
Areas of focus
Victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence - including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Forced Marriage and 'honour' based violence
What we will do:
- Ensure that all potential victims are accessing services, with specific emphasis on Minority Groups and older people.
- Bring together key Partners from Statutory Services and Voluntary Sector to ensure a co-ordinated approach where services are jointly commissioned.
- Ensure frontline and specialist services are trained to be able to identify; approach; engage and rehabilitate perpetrators of abuse to prevent re-victimisation.
- Build on existing Early Intervention & Prevention approaches to stop Domestic Abuse from happening in the first place.
- Undertake systematic gathering of intelligence (particularly softer intelligence) to inform service delivery.
Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
What we will do:
- Work with Partners to prevent and tackle CSE through awareness-raising in communities, front-line training for agencies and robust enforcement action against offenders.
- Contribute to the Child Sexual Exploitation and Missing From Home Strategy
- Develop information sharing protocols with Safeguarding Boards and appropriate Sub-Groups as per the structure chart on the Community Safety Plan 2019 - 2021 page
Priority 2 - Putting victims first
Being a victim of crime can undermine a person's confidence and make them unhappy or frightened. It can affect a person's outlook on life. The Criminal Justice System should be service-orientated, with the victim at the centre of all it does. Victims and witnesses of crime and anti-social behaviour deserve the very best treatment, service and outcomes possible to help them cope, recover and thrive.
Who will deliver this?
Victim Services Co-ordinator for the Police will lead on much of this work supported by all Task & Finish Groups.
This contributes to Priority 1 from the GM Standing Together Plan.
Areas of focus
Improve services to enable victims to access support they need
What we will do:
- Identify gaps in, and opportunities to improve, support services for victims of crime, identifying any barriers and sharing 'what works', with a particular focus on 'Early Help'.
- Improve quality of response to victims of Hate Crime.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen the victim services model through local integration and collaborative working with other support services.
- Proactively identify opportunities to intervene early to prevent harm.
Priority 3 - Reduce re-offending
Managing repeat offenders remains a key priority not only for Bury but nationally. Statistics estimate that around half of all crime is committed by individuals with previous convictions with an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £9.5 to £13 billion per year. Alongside this are the Personal and Community impacts of crime which make this one of the most important issues facing the Partnership.
Who will deliver this?
Reducing Re-offending Group, Integrated Offender Management Partnership Meeting, Community Safety Partnership.
This contributes to Priority 2 from the GM Standing Together Plan.
Areas of focus
Strategic approach
What we will do:
- Create a single, integrated multi-agency plan for reducing offending and re-offending
- Develop and monitor access to key services to ensure offenders have the support they need to stop offending
Restorative justice
What we will do:
- Develop an effective Restorative Justice model for Adults and Youths Out of court disposals
Out of court disposals
What we will do:
- Development of effective out of court disposals as an alternative to the Criminal Justice System (where there is evidence of a reduction in recividism)
Priority 4 - Build stable, cohesive communities
With a population that is becoming increasingly diverse it is important to work actively to identify changing issues and maintain Bury's high level of cohesion.
As Regional, National and International events unfold we must respond quickly and effectively where there are tensions to be addressed. Our concern is not just with race and culture - it also examines the many factors that could divide our local community such as social class, prejudice and discrimination on the grounds of age, gender, disability, faith or sexual orientation.
Additionally, we cannot underestimate the positive impact that access to safe public spaces, organised sport and culture can have both on a community's wellbeing and levels of crime and we will work together with partners to promote these ideals.
Who will lead on this work?
Hate Crime Forum & Prevent Steering Group.
This contributes to Priorities 1,2 and 3 from the GM Standing Together Plan.
Areas of focus
Hate crime
What we will do:
- Develop a new Hate Crime Strategy aimed at understanding, preventing and tackling Hate Crime in Bury.
- Undertake targeted work with Perpetrators of Hate Crime in key locations.
- Work closely with communities to raise awareness and encourage reporting of Hate Crime.
Prevent
What we will do:
- Challenge the ideology of extremism, and provide support for individuals who are vulnerable to radicalisation.
- Ensure systems and training are in place to encourage professionals and members of the public to report relevant concerns.
Community cohesion
What we will do:
- Ensure that we are having efficient, representative engagement with communities and actively seeking to implement public feedback in delivering our services.
Priority 5 - Develop a partnership approach to community safety
Public Sector Reform (RSR) is changing the face of how services are delivered. Community Safety Partners are at the forefront of meeting these challenges and are driving transformational change and redesign of services by developing new partnerships and ways of integrating delivery to provide services that are fundamentally better.
Who will deliver this?
All partners.
This contributes to Priority 3 from the GM Standing Together Plan.
Areas of focus
Neighbourhood delivery model
What we will do:
- Contribute to the development of the PSR Hub and effective place-based initiatives
Integrated working
What we will do:
- Seek closer alignment with key Partner Boards (as per structure diagram on the Community Safety Plan 2019 - 2021 page) to improve opportunities for joint working and reduce duplication.
ASB
What we will do:
- Ensure that efforts to address Anti-Social Behaviour are intertwined with the PSR Hub processes and that the whole borough benefits from a Partnership approach.
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