Issue - meetings

To receive a verbal update by the Head of Safer and Stronger Communities on the current proposals for a new Service Level Agreement.

Peter Hartwell, Head of Safer and Stronger Communities attended the meeting and outlined briefly details of the new Service Level Agreement for neighbourhood policing arrangements linked to the new Neighbourhood Policing Grant. The removal of the ring-fenced CDRP grant from the new formula grant settlement had resulted in there being no earmarked funding for PCSO’s in future. Peter explained however, that the Council had mainstreamed a sum of £260,000 in the 2011/12 budget to support neighbourhood policing in Cheshire East.

RESOLVED – That consideration of this matter be deferred to the next meeting of the Committee and the Head of Safer Communities be requested to submit a written report explaining the full implications of the new funding arrangements and Service Level Agreement.