Agenda item

The Group noted the LBB Safer Bromley Partnership draft Strategic Assessment report. The report had been emailed separately to Group members prior to the meeting for their attention so that they could feed back to the Group at the meeting.

The Group heard that the Strategic Assessment (SA) had identified the issues regarded as priorities by the SBP for 2016-2019. These were:

1.  Domestic Abuse – D/Supt Trevor Lawry (MPS)

2.  Preventing Violent Extremism – Nigel Davies (LBB)

3.  Reducing Re-offending – Sharon Kirk or Lee (CRC)

4.  Serious Youth Violence and Gang Activity – Jane Bailey (LBB)

5.  Envirocrime and associated ASB – Dan Cartwright (LFB)

The Group noted the strategic ambition and strategic plan for each priority.

For Domestic Abuse, 3 strategic ambitions had been identified:

·  Early identification of emerging trends and gaps in service provision

·  A strategy to raise awareness, and to develop more effective engagement with communities

·  Ensuring that clear and concise referral pathways were established

For each strategic ambition, a strategic plan outlining how the ambition would, be achieved was explained.

The Group moved on to discuss the next priority of preventing violent extremism. Four strategic ambitions had been identified:

1.  Protecting young people and vulnerable adults from being drawn into extremism

2.  The establishment of clear and concise referral pathways

3.  Ensuring that adequate governance was in place to support the Prevent Agenda

4.  Ensuring that Bromley residents and businesses were protected

The Group heard that a Prevent Action Plan had been agreed, and the aim of the Plan was to ensure that the Borough was fully prepared to identify any risks that may be conducive to extremist behaviour.

A third priority that had been identified was the reduction of re-offending.

Three Strategic aims had been identified:

1.  Review the IOM function across Bromley

2.  Reinvigorate the Safer Bromley Partnership Reducing Reoffending Strategic Group

3.  Improve the coordination of the function of the Integrated Offender Management board

The fourth strategic ambition was to reduce serious youth violence and gang activity.

The strategic responses to the growth of this problem would include,

•  Raising awareness.

•  Engaging with hard to reach communities.

•  Establishing clear and concise referral pathways.

•  Early identification of emerging trends and gaps in provision.

•  Consider adopting the recently published Home Office strategic aims for gangs and youth violence, to ensure a robust action plan was in place

The fifth strategic ambition was to reduce Envirocrime and associated ASB, and the proposed strategic responses to this were outlined.

It was now the case that the Leads for each identified area would need to take forward the proposed action plans once agreed by the SBP. The Group was encouraged to provide feedback concerning the draft SBP Strategic Assessment report. It was intended that there would be an ongoing reporting cycle, and the funding and pots of money to carry out the work would need to be identified and sourced. The Group Leads would report back to the SBP. Ms Roberts requested that the domestic abuse of the elderly be written into the Plan. 

It was anticipated that there would be some final adjustments to the final draft of the strategic assessment report to align the aims with action plans. There was still time for partners to feed back into the final draft. It was hoped that the final draft of the strategic assessment would be completed and published in September 2016.

RESOLVED that the Strategic Assessment report be endorsed by the Group, and that Group Leads proceed with implementing the strategic plans as identified in the report.