Post Scrutiny - Executive Response

ASB is a key feature of all PASCT agendas – which local members regularly attend.

PACT issues are fed into the CDRP structure and acted on through multi-agency discussion and the Partnership business group and within the Community Safety Panel.

Work is underway to improve the way partnership intelligence is recorded. This includes a review of IT systems that are currently in use by different agencies.

Officers from Community Safety Services (CS Officers, ASB Team and Patroller Neighbourhood Managers) have all been police vetted to enable access to the police NMS system. This will support the aim of having a single place for neighbourhood intelligence / data.

In addition, the CIG process has now been aligned to the Neighbourhood Action Teams. This has the added benefit of being seen alongside other NAT agenda items like hotspot information (where we are getting the greatest number of calls for service) and ASBRAC information (vulnerable victims of ASB). community issues.

This information is shared among partners with the aim of improving our understanding of community issues across all agencies which ultimately strengthens our interventions.

The latest results from the Citizens Panel (Summer 2011) show vast improvements in residents’ perceptions of ASB (since 2009, there has been a fall of 21.5 percentage points).

Community Confidence is included in the 2011-14 CDRP Partnership Plan as a cross-cutting theme in recognition that all activity under the CDRP impacts on confidence. As such, a measure has also been included in the Tameside Area Agreement around perceptions of ASB to be measured by Citizens Panel. We are using the same question (previous NI17) to allow trend analysis.

In order to improve performance, the CDRP will produce a partnership communications action plan in 2011/12.

The CDRP has made a commitment to continue with the Victims’ Champion role following a successful pilot in 2010/11. The role has evolved with a stronger focus on partnership links which includes ongoing training of front-line staff. The new role also includes a focus on hate crime in recognition that in many cases, repeat victimisation of ASB often crosses into hate motivated incidents.

Strengthening this further, work is underway to improve the links between ASBRAC and THIP. This will be achieved in part by a review of the chairing of the two groups with the AED with oversight of THIP chairing ASBRAC and Head of Community Safety Services chairing THIP.

The NATs have recently included an update from ASBRAC in all meetings to ensure that all agencies / departments are sighted on individuals recognised as vulnerable in terms of ASB victimisation. As stated, the information is seen alongside CIG (perpetrator) information and hotspot data.

The introduction of the LIS project in St Peters has provided a platform for agencies to come together to provide a more cohesive route to employment and citizenship. The probation service have very recently submitted a proposal for funding a Tameside Offender Mentoring Service (TOMS). The TOMS remit over the next 12 months will be to work in partnership with existing services to add value to their schemes and link offenders into projects in their local neighbourhoods, in order to support shared outcomes.

TOMS are in discussion with St Peter’s Partnership to purchase employment packages to use with offenders who are engaging well with the scheme. TOMS also hope to provide peer mentor training and support to individuals identified by St Peters Partnership who wish to develop their skills in working with substance misusers and offenders.

The proposed AGMA scheme has been badly affected by funding cuts across the AGMA authorities and cannot now be introduced as originally envisaged. The initial proposal to have a property based scheme which ensured each individual property was inspected and approved and was accredited as a property along with landlord compliance with management standards is no longer viable.

It is proposed that a scheme in partnership with the National Landlords Association, which is a landlord-based scheme, will be introduced across AGMA where a landlord rather than individual properties are accredited. This should still bring appropriate management standards but clearly we won’t be aware of the condition of all of the properties belonging to that landlord.

There is a further meeting on the 19 April to review progress and move to an implementation date.

Significant reductions in service funding following income and grant reductions have reduced the capacity of Young People’s Services to deliver specific community and intervention work. Expertise and capability still exists in the services to deliver and should integration with neighbourhood plans yield commissioning opportunities to deliver work, then this would present a solution. The service reviews for Cultural Services and for integrated youth services focus on a greater outreach and third sector delivery. Cultural activities and especially sport can provide very cost effective interventions. Guidance will be sought to understand how the service can integrate with neighbourhood plans to progress this.

The new Youth and Family Teams will provide a vehicle for co-ordinating activity more effectively

Neighbourhood policing teams have specific patrol plans for Neighbourhood officers aligned to ASB hotspot and ASB perpetrators.

Plans are in place to ensure Response policing teams are aligned to default neighbourhood communities and will be given specific briefing cards to help them understand local ASB issues and offenders, police those areas where possible.