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Police and Crime Standards Directorate

Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships

Kathy Robinson

23rd April 2008

Crime and Disorder Reduction PartnershipsLondon Scrutiny Network – 23rd April 2008Kathy Robinson


Content

•Context•Changing landscape•CDRP reform programme•Hallmarks•Guidance•Implementation•Performance framework – APACS•CSR 2007, New PSAs•Challenges•The year ahead

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The changing landscapeCDRP Reform Revised statutory framework. Good practice guidance. Ongoing implementation support Wider Framework APACS The new performance framework for crime and policing. LAAs

New PSAs More flexible approach. New crime strategy

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CDRP reform programme

Police and Justice Act 2006

1. Repeals three year audits and strategies and annual submission of reports to Home Secretary.

2. Extends Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to encompass anti-social behaviour and substance misuse.

3. Allows for the introduction of national minimum standards.

4. Provides for new information sharing regulations.



What are the national minimum standards?The following six hallmarks of an effective and successful partnership underpin the new minimum standards: Empowered and effective leadership.To ensure that there is the right level of representation and involvement across all CDRPs/CSPs Intelligence-led business processes.To ensure decision making is based on good and up to date informationEffective and responsive delivery structures.To enable partnerships to respond quickly and effectively to needs of their communitiesCommunity engagement.To ensure that local people are informed, consulted and involvedVisible and constructive accountability.To make CDRPs/CSPs more accountable to local people Appropriate skills and knowledge.

Consider the skills and knowledge required to meet objectives



Hallmark of Effective Partnership

Duty under Minimum Standards Regulations – 1st August 2007

Empowered and Effective Leadership

•To convene a strategy group comprising all responsible authorities

Intelligence-led business processes

•To prepare a strategic assessment •An information sharing protocol is in place •Designated liaison officer to promote and facilitate information sharing

Effective and responsive delivery structures

•To produce a partnership plan – annually refreshed•To convene a County Level Strategy Group

Community Engagement •Meet minimum standards on community consultation and engagement

Visible and Constructive Accountability

•Conduct Face the People Session•Forthcoming – Overview and Scrutiny and CCA

Appropriate Skills and Knowledge

Runs throughout the minimum standards



What do CDRPs need to doBy 1 April 2008: Prepare a Partnership Plan Ensure Senior Representation Share Information Consult Communities Prepare a Strategic Assessment

After 1 April 2008: Deliver local priorities

By 1 April 2009: Refresh Partnership Plan

Ongoing: Continuous ImprovementSpread Good Practice



Guidance for partnerships Four themes:

• Lead and guide.• Assess.• Plan.• Deliver.

Published on 18 September Describes requirements of national minimum standards and explores

what needs to be done to meet the standards. Demonstrates how to improve further and highlights examples of

effective practice. Signposts sources of further information.



Ongoing implementation supportInformation / Awareness raising (October and November ’07): •Regional events to enhance.•Strategic Assessment Toolkit

Medium-term programme from November ‘07 to April ’08: •HO performance support managers to work with GO’s to achieve national minimum standards and hallmarks.

Longer-term programme from April ’08 onwards: •Impact assessment - introduction of national standards and hallmarks•Self assessment & Effective Practice•Building capacity and capability ie leadership



CSR 07 PSAsThe Government has published its top national priorities for

the next three financial years: 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11

The priorities are set out in 30 Public Service Agreements (PSAs)

PSAs are intended to be cross-government objectives

The Home Secretary leads on five

PSA 23, “Make communities safer”



CSR ’07 - Make Communities Safer PSA

(i) Reduce the most serious violence, including tackling serious sexual offences and domestic violenceIndicator: “The level of most serious violent crimes” (measured nationally)

(ii) Continue to make progress on serious acquisitive crime through a focus on the issues of greatest priority in each locality and the most harmful offenders – particularly drug-misusing offendersIndicator: “The level of serious acquisitive crimes” (measured at CDRP level; focus is limited only to those CDRPs with a level of the most harmful acquisitive crimes that is disproportionate when judged against what has been achieved elsewhere)



Make Communities Safer PSA (continued)(iii) Tackle the crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour issues of greatest importance in each locality, increasing public confidence in the local agencies involved in dealing with these issuesIndicators: “Public confidence in local agencies involved in tackling crime and anti-social behaviour”, and “The percentage of people perceiving anti-social behaviour as a problem” (measured nationally)

(iv) Reduce re-offending through the improved management of offendersIndicators: “The level of proven re-offending by young and adult offenders” and “The level of serious re-offending” (measured nationally)



1. Targets – too many, wrong things?

2. Joining up central government

3. Public responsiveness and accountability

4. Resources

Challenges



• More local flexibility in PSAs

• Measuring local satisfaction explicitly

• Removed “perverse incentive” on offences brought to justice

• Stronger focus on more serious crimes

• And those below certain floor for key acquisitive crimes

• LAAs an opportunity to agree priorities at the outset

Targets



• Very clear that this is an issue

• National Crime Reduction Board now in place to give this more focus

• LAAs a major opportunity for Government to be clearer about its priorities at local level

• Partnership-itis: CDRP guidance sends clear steer on local partnerships working together effectively

• Intend to follow this up with new more joined-up approach to performance management and support

Joining Up Central Government



Overview of APACS vision and aimsSimplification of HO arrangements: a single framework to assess the key

services delivered by the police working alone or in partnership.

Alignment with related frameworks of ‘other government departments’ and ‘non-departmental public bodies’, integrated across wider arrangements to manage and support performance.

Improved quality and range of performance indicators reflecting (e.g.) PSAs / other priorities, relative seriousness, VfM and equality.

Fewer performance indicators and targets with more shared indicators and targets between delivery partners.

Better balance of accountability with more space for local flexibility and a reduced demand for data by central government.

Deliver clear, consistent and timely messages to the public and to providers to promote visibility, accountability and responsiveness.



New framework is intended to give more flexibility to local areas to respond to local priorities

Many of Government’s recent policy steers are aimed in this direction – face the people sessions, neighbourhood policing, publishing monthly local information about crime

More to come in Policing Green Paper, Casey review and Empowerment White Paper

Visible partnerships, responsive to public concerns, held to account for the decisions they make are key to establishing the right central – local balance

Public Responsiveness and Accountability



• New drugs strategy, violence action plan, policing green paper

• Finalising LAAs and reflecting the new PSAs and local concerns

• Refining our support and performance management mechanisms (APACS)

• Building links between partnerships (LCJBs & CDRPS)

• Developing National Crime Reduction Board

• Embedding more local engagement, local information, local scrutiny

• Beginning to deliver on new PSAs - serious violence, local confidence

What next?



Contacts for further information

Kathy Robinson 020 7035 3226 or [email protected]

Simon Wickenden 020 7035 or [email protected]



Accessing Information

Crime Reduction Website•Regulations•Guidance•Strategic Assessment Toolkitwww.crimereduction.gov.uk

Police Reform Website•APACshttp://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/performance-and-measurement/assess-policing-community-safety/

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