Issue - meetings

To receive the Safer Cheshire East Partnership Annual Report 2022-23.

Prior to the 2022/23 Annual Report of the Safer Cheshire East Partnership (SCEP) being presented to committee the Director of Adults Social Care reported that The Channel Panel and Prevent which also reported in to SCEP had its annual benchmarking with the Home Office recently and was rated ‘good to outstanding’.

The Committee received the SCEP report which included:

·         a comprehensive overview of how Strategic Partners worked together during 2022/2023 to reduce crime and increase reassurance to members of the public across Cheshire East.

·         new areas of work which had been driven by central government which included a new Combating Drugs Partnership and a Serious Violence Duty which would impact on the work of SCEP going forward.

·         the purpose, aims and priorities of the Safer Cheshire East Partnership and evidenced activity, challenges, and achievements during the year including reference to any on-going impact of COVID influencing Crime and Disorder responses in Cheshire East.

·         a number of examples of how impact had been measured as part of the core business and project delivery, providing information describing how the Strategic Aims of SCEP had been implemented and how financial support provided by the Police and Crime Commissioners Office was directed to support identified priorities agreed by SCEP Partners.

The report evidenced that the Safer Cheshire East Partnership was undertaking its statutory responsibilities and that SCEP was fulfilling the functions to protect and support communities and provide the reassurance that Cheshire East was a safe place to both work and live.

Following comments and questions from members officers reported that:

-       In respect of education some work had been carried out with schools with the police who went in and talked to young people about attitudes towards women and what behaviour would be acceptable and what wouldn’t, and the consequences of that behaviour if it fell short.

-       Physical support had been provided in conjunction with My CWA, and following work with the survival group practical items such as torches, personal alarms were purchased.

-       Following the safer streets work an application called ‘Hollie Guard’ which was free to download and could be used in a variety of situations had been introduced along with the introduction of safety buses which would be visiting the night time economy sites and were now a permanent fixture.

RESOLVED:

That the 2022/23 Annual Report of the Safer Cheshire East Partnership (SCEP) be noted.