Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
10 February 2015
10:00 – 12:45
Committee Rooms 1 & 2
The Guildhall, Cambridge
AGENDA
No. Item
Lead Officer(s)
1
Welcome, housekeeping/introductions and apologies
Chair
Time
(Mins)
5
2
Simon Kerss
10
3
Presentation: Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
Partnership Annual Report
Election of Vice Chair
Chair
5
4
Pre-advised questions from the general public
Chair
10
5
Minutes of 21 October 2014 meeting: Agreement
Board / members
5
6
Action points: Review
Board / members
10
7
Community Safety Plan 2014-17: First draft of Year
Two
Crime and disorder report: Q3 2014/15
Lynda Kilkelly
30
Leigh Roberts
10
8
9
10
Priority area progress reports: Q3 2014/15
.1 – Reducing alcohol-related violent crime
.2 – Victim based acquisitive crime - identifying and
responding to emerging trends
.3 – Reducing anti-social behaviour
.4 – Domestic abuse - local work around awareness
raising and training
.5 – “Snapshot” of local area priorities & issues
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Lorraine Parker
Lorraine Parker
Lynda Kilkelly
Lorraine Lofting
Chris Parker
Susie Talbot
15
11
Cambridgeshire Safer Communities Partnership Q3
2014/15
Drug and Alcohol Action Team report: Update
Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence: Update
Reducing offending
Mick Birchall
5
12
Partnership Terms Of Reference: Revision report
Louise Walker
5
13
Any other business
Board / members
5
Date of next Cambridge CSP Meeting
3 March
2015
165
Information for the general public
and media representatives
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Cambridgeshire Domestic
Abuse and Sexual
Violence Partnership
Annual Report
1 April 2013 –
31 March 2014
Contents
Page
1. Introduction from the Chair ........................................................ 3
2. Our Aims ................................................................................... 4
3. Partnership Structure ................................................................ 4
3. Domestic Abuse ........................................................................ 5
4. Sexual Violence ........................................................................ 17
5. Children and Young People ...................................................... 23
6. Vulnerable Adults ...................................................................... 24
7. Priorities for 2014-15 ................................................................. 25
8. Appendices ............................................................................... 28
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1.0
Introduction From the Chair
Dear Partners
I am pleased to introduce to you the Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse and
Sexual Violence Partnership Annual Report for 2013 / 14.
The Partnership has been incredibly busy this past year developing a new
strategic board to lead our activities, and building networks with key
partners to reflect the growing domestic abuse and sexual violence
agenda.
We are also in the process of refreshing the countywide strategy and
action plan to provide an enhanced multi-agency response to issues
impacting our communities.
Fortunately, we have ‘excellent’ services (as assessed by the charity
‘Standing Together’ during a recent Home Office – funded peer review) to
build on, and a real desire to pull together the various initiatives ongoing
across Cambridgeshire, as evidenced by the developing strategy.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our partner agencies for
their contributions to date and hard work in supporting the work of the
Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse Partnership. It is through this multiagency effort that we will progress our plan of action and achieve our
partnership vision.
Adrian Loades
Executive Director – Children, Families and Adults Services
Chair of the Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse Governance Board
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2.0
Our Aims
Our vision is to reduce the harms associated with domestic abuse,
and prevent these crimes from occurring across Cambridgeshire.
The revised Domestic Abuse Strategy for 2014-18 sets out the aims of the
partnership in relation to domestic abuse in Cambridgeshire. You can
read more about the new strategy and objectives on Page 25.
3.0
Partnership Structure
3.1
Leadership and Governance
In December 2012 Standing Together reviewed the Domestic Abuse and
Sexual Violence (DASV) Partnership in Cambridgeshire as part of a Home
Office funded programme of support for local partnerships. The intention
was to provide a means of benchmarking performance and offer some
guidance to allow improvement. Cambridgeshire was found to be
operating well but at risk of losing the momentum it had created. Standing
Together returned to the county to conduct a further review and make
recommendations in areas where improvements would reap the most
benefits. These areas were:
 Structure – including governance
 Strategy – and action plan
 Representation – and leadership
 Coordination – as a system and role
 Data – and performance management
In order to address these recommendations, a Governance Board was
created, bringing together representatives from Partnership organisations
at a strategic level. The Governance Board held their first meeting in
November 2013 and agreed the following plans for the Board:



the name would be the Domestic Abuse Governance Board
sexual violence would remain a remit of the Partnership but
would not be in the title of the governance group
to review the current strategy and action plan of the Partnership
It was recognised that similar issues exist in Peterborough and
Cambridgeshire thus joining of the Governance Boards would enable
sharing of information and resources and reduce duplication. However, it
is also acknowledged that some issues are unique to either
Cambridgeshire or Peterborough so the Boards would need to focus
separately on such issues.
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3.2
Operational Group
The operational group of the DASV Partnership is known as the DASV
Implementation Board – it consists of managers representing key
partners, stakeholders, District Councils, task group Chairs and
representation from service user groups. Over the last two years, the
Implementation Board has supported four task groups focussed on the
themes identified in the 2012-15 Strategy which were:




Leadership & Governance
Training & Awareness
Interventions
Children & Young People
The achievements of these four task groups are summarised in Appendix
1.
In early 2014, a report was taken to the Domestic Abuse Governance
Board making recommendations for a refresh of the DASV Strategy and
revised priorities. More about the revised strategy can be found in section
8.0 – Priorities for 2014-15.
4.0
Domestic Abuse
4.1
Statistical Information
Current trends (see tables 1, 2 and 3) show an increase across the county
in the volume of police-reported incidents. The reasons for this are
unclear; it could be due to more people reporting or it could be that
domestic abuse is becoming more prevalent. Conversely, national figures
are seeing a downward trend in reporting.
The most recent British Crime Survey estimates suggest that in 2012-13,
18,220 adult women and 12,459 adult men became victims of domestic
violence / abuse in Cambridgeshire.
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Table 1: Counts of police reported domestic abuse incidents per district
2012/13 2013/14
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
Cambridge City
East
Cambridgeshire
1477
1638
1914
1609
1712
1795
598
681
820
669
721
790
Fenland
1461
1555
1759
1591
1793
1938
Huntingdonshire
South
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Total
1833
1872
2103
2017
2159
2434
1069
1248
1216
1105
1235
1268
6438
6994
7812
6991
7620
8225
Table 2: Trends in reporting, by district
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Table 3: Comparison of change in police recorded domestic abuse
incidents by district
2012/13
Cambridge City
East Cambridgeshire
Fenland
Huntingdonshire
South
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Total
2013/14
Volume change
% change
1712
721
1793
2159
1795
790
1938
2434
83
69
145
275
4.8
9.6
8.1
12.7
1235
1268
33
2.7
7620
8225
605
7.9
The map below indicates Cambridgeshire’s domestic abuse ‘hotspots’ in terms of
reported incident rates per 1000 of the population. Highest rate of domestic
abuse is recorded in Fenland 20.3 per 1,000 population followed by
Huntingdonshire and Cambridge City which has a rate of 14.2 per 1,000
population. The Partnership has prioritised work in these areas, and partner
agencies are responding accordingly. Although the map provides an indication of
volume, it cannot provide an overview of individual risk and agencies should
always be cognisant of this fact.
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4.1.2 Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA) Referrals
The number of referrals to the IDVA service has been increasing. Table 4
below shows the number of IDVA referrals for each Community Safety
Partnership District during 2013-14. Table 5 shows a comparison from
2011-12 and 2012-13 for each CSP district.
Table 4: IDVA Referrals 2013-14
Local measure
(volume of
referrals)
Cambridge City
East Cambs
Fenland
Hunts
South Cambs
Specialist IDVAs
TOTAL
Q1
Q2
2013-14
Q3
Q4
44
15
53
63
27
166
368
59
20
49
61
36
247
472
56
17
42
59
32
204
410
59
18
53
74
35
244
483
TOTAL
218
70
197
257
130
861
1733
Table 5: IDVA Referrals 2011-12 and 2012-13
2011-12
Q3
Q4
Local measure
(volume of
referrals)
Cambridge City
East Cambs
Fenland
Hunts
South Cambs
Specialist IDVA
Q1
Q2
56
36
39
79
33
20
46
20
36
75
33
16
63
22
26
52
23
9
TOTAL
263
226
195
2012-13
Q3
Q4
TOTAL
Q1
Q2
24
19
16
43
22
13
189
97
117
249
111
58
26
22
28
39
19
19
68
3
61
93
49
40
67
26
57
79
41
56
32
28
48
75
41
125
193
79
194
286
150
240
137
821
153
314
326
349
1142
8
TOTAL
Table 6 – Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) data 2013-14
Indicator
Number of MARACs sending in data
1. Number of cases discussed
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Southern (East, City Central (Fenland &
& South)
Huntingdon)
1
2. Cases per 10,000 of the adult female
population
3. Number of children
4. Referrals from partner agencies
5.
6.
7.
8.
Referrals from police
Repeat referrals
B & ME referrals
LGBT referrals
9. Referrals where the victim has a
disability
10. Referrals with a male victim
4.2
1
135
220
9.2
20.1
179
36%
64%
43%
11.1%
318
35%
65%
40%
14.5%
<1%
0.0%
7.4%
3.2%
3.0%
1.8%
Training
The two day Domestic Violence Awareness training was trialled as a 1.5
day course during the 2013-14 financial year but it proved impossible to
adequately impart all the information to attendees in the reduced time so
the course has now reverted to two days. Table 7 shows the break down
of attendees at this training for 2013-14
Colleagues in Adult Safeguarding deliver a two day Safeguarding of
Vulnerable Adults/Domestic Abuse course and this was delivered to 28
attendees from statutory and voluntary organisations during 2013-14.
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Table 7: Domestic Abuse 2 day training breakdown 2013-14
Date of
Training
23/24 April
2013
Histon
21/22 May
2013
Huntingdon
11/12 June
2013,
Histon
8/9 Oct
2013,
Histon
10/11 Dec
2013, March
22/23 Jan
2014,
Histon
11/12 Feb
2014,
Huntingdon
TOTALS
No of
Attendees
Agency
Base
CYP
Other
Police
Vol &
Comm
CCS
Non
Teaching
Staff
Countywide
22
16
2
2
0
2
0
4
20
11
0
3
3
3
0
17
9
3
4
1
19
12
3
0
2
10
3
0
0
17
15
0
13
11
118
77
South
East
Fens
Hunts
Unkn
own
7
7
0
2
2
0
9
3
2
0
1
4
0
0
8
2
4
0
2
1
0
2
0
4
7
5
0
2
1
0
6
0
1
5
1
0
0
1
3
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
8
5
0
0
3
0
0
1
0
1
2
0
5
0
1
4
1
5
8
18
8
2
33
20
31
5
9
15
4
CYP – Children and Young People, Vol & Comm – Voluntary and Community
CCS – Cambridgeshire Community Services
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City
4.3
Staffing
0.9 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Partnership Manager
0.6 FTE Partnership Support Officer
1 FTE IDVA Manager
7.2 FTE Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs)
1.0 FTE A8 IDVA
1.0 FTE Young People’s IDVA
2 FTE Health IDVA
0.8 FTE MARAC Coordinator
1.0 FTE Administrator
During the financial year 2013-14 vacancies occurred due to staff moving
on to other roles but processes were in place to ensure vacancies were
advertised and recruited to.
The post of IDVA Manager will be moved from Cambridgeshire
Constabulary to Cambridgeshire County Council under a TUPE
agreement in 2014. The DA Trainer will also be delivering substance
misuse training. This will enable the workforce to better respond to
correlated issues.
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4.4
Funding 2013/14
Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership funding allocations 2013 - 2015
Notes
2013/14
2014/15
County Council
Public Health
Community Safety
Funds – now Police
Crime Commissioner
Home Office
District Councils
Community Safety
Partnerships
CCC mainstream
Comm
Engagement &
Drug & Alcohol
"Supporting
People"
IDVAs
£369,333
IDVAs then
Young People
IDVA from
2012/13
Grant
South Cambs
Fenland
East Cambs
Huntingdon
City – Housing
City – Comm Dev
South Cambs
£377,460
£75,000
£30,000
£414,336
£414,336
£43,506
£41,000
£43,506
*indicative amount
£41,000
£20,000
£7,302
£20,000
£7,352
£42,940
£4000
£2,709
£43,830
£4,000
Fenland
East Cambs
Huntingdon
Cambridge City
Police - in posts – IRO
£70,000
47 officers dedicated to DA
response not counting
MASH/MARU staff
TOTAL
£1,045,126
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£975,302
4.5
Awareness Raising
The Partnership drafted a Communications Strategy in 2013 to set out the
ways in which we would work to raise awareness of domestic abuse
across the county. In 2013 a Community Engagement and Service User
Strategy was drafted to build on the recommendation of the Standing
Together peer review to increase service user involvement. These two
strategies led to a combined communications project and action plan
which achieved a number of outcomes, including raising awareness via
adverts on local radio, distributing information to schools, children’s
centres, libraries and hospitals and specific work targeted at children and
young people.
A bi-monthly briefing update on the work of the Partnership was developed
in late 2013 and this is shared with partners across a wide range of
agencies. A monthly Violence Against Women and Girls Newsletter is
also produced that collates news and information items as well as training
opportunities – this is also distributed widely.
4.6
Data from Refuge Providers
4.6.1 Cambridge Women’s Aid - Outreach
In January 2014 the management of contracts for the provision of refuge
and outreach services was passed to the Cambridgeshire Safer
Communities Partnerships Team.
The Cambridge Women’s Aid Outreach Service is funded by Cambridge
City Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridgeshire
County Council. CWA offers (mainly) women one to one support and
access to group support sessions. CWA also provides women with
weekly activities to encourage them to come together and offer each other
peer support. Support is provided by two full time workers during normal
office hours. Service users can also access support in an emergency 24
hours a day, 365 days a year thanks to the CWA on call worker who is
available outside of normal working hours.
During 2013-14, 826 individual people were supported by the project 819 were women and 7 were men. The Outreach service were told about
641 children living in the households of people they supported. Of these,
25 were over 18, 284 were school age children and 146 were pre-school
age children. The ages of the other 186 children were unknown.
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Of the 826 people supported by this project in the last year, 382 received
support and it is not anticipated to have any further contact with them. Of
these 382, 312 needed only one support session for advice and
information. At the end of the financial year, 157 people were engaged
with the service and are classed as ongoing clients receiving a period of
support. Fifteen people made contact with the service and were offered
support but did not engage further and 81 people were referred to the
project by a professional but did not want to engage with the project at this
time. Emergency accommodation was found for 110 people deemed to be
in crisis. We gave advice to a friend, family member or professional for 19
people but did not have any contact with them directly and 33 people were
referred on to services more local to them or better able to meet their
support needs. Finally 29 people were not offered a service as they did not
meet criteria.
The total funding provided to CWA for Outreach services in 2013-14 was
£94,550. There was a funding shortfall of around £2,000 which was
funded from CWA donations/reserves pot. The average cost per head of
each person using the service (regardless of support given) works out at
£116 per head. It is worth noting that a significant amount of work around
giving one off advice and helping women find refuge is provided by the
workers in the refuge when time permits.
Thanks to a generous private donation, during 2014/15 direct support for
the children whose mothers are engaged with the outreach project will be
available
through
the
CWA
Children’s
Service
4.6.2 Cambridge Women’s Aid – Refuge Provision
In the year up to March 2014 the Cambridge refuge accommodated fortynine women plus any children they had with them. Their length of stay
was as follows
Less than 2 weeks
Between 2 weeks & 2 months
Between 2 months & 4 months
Between 4 months & 6 months
Between 6 months & 10 months
Between 10 months & 12 months
Number in refuge at the end of the year
7 women
11 women
8 women
5 women
8 women
1 woman
9 women
All women were assigned a Refuge Support Worker who helped them
settle into the refuge, explore their options, identify their needs and work
through a support plan. Some women were supported to move on quickly
to their preferred accommodation while other stayed for a significant time
while we helped them to get rehoused permanently.
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In this year, sixty-five children were given safe accommodation alongside
their mother/carer. The age range of the children was as follows
Less than 5 years old
Aged between 5 & 10 years old
Aged between 11 & 16 years old
29 children
29 children
7 children
All the children were offered a range of support and activities while living in
the refuge based on an assessment of their needs.
4.6.3 Refuge
Refuge runs two safe houses in Cambridgeshire, which last year
supported 62 women and 74 children. Over half (54.8%) of the women
who stayed in our refuges were aged 21-30.
Women had experienced an average of five years of abuse before coming
to one of the refuges. On exiting the refuges, 47% of women reported a
complete end to all forms of abuse and 80% of women said they felt safer
as a result of receiving support. The average reduction in risk per client
was 30%. The refuges also supported women at risk of forced marriage
and ‘honour’-based violence.
As well as providing emotional and practical support, Refuge’s
caseworkers also supported three women to report their experiences to
the police. Two of these cases went to court; both cases resulted in a
conviction.
In 2013-14, the refuges in Cambridgeshire supported 74 children, all aged
11 or under. In August 2013, Refuge was awarded a three-year grant
from BBC Children in Need to employ a part-time specialist child support
worker. The child support worker runs activity sessions for the children,
both one to one and in groups, which support their learning and
development, and enables them to express themselves safely through
play. She also supports mothers with parenting workshops as well
providing practical information about local services for children, such as
play schemes, nurseries or schools. In addition to working with the
mothers and children in the refuges, the child support worker has
established links with many primary schools in the area.
Refuge also provides floating support and community outreach services
for women and children escaping domestic violence in Cambridgeshire.
These services are designed to help women to remain safely in their own
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homes, or to support women to move on from a refuge and resettle into
new accommodation.
In 2013-14 these services supported 78 women and 103 children. The
majority of these women – 60.3% - were aged 21-40. Before accessing
our services, women had experienced an average of six years of abuse.
On leaving Refuge, 45% of clients reported a complete end to all forms of
abuse. The service achieved an average reduction in risk per client of
24.8%.
Refuge’s outreach and floating support services achieved 98% of women’s
requested safety outcomes, and 100% of their requested health outcomes.
Refuge has recently launched two community outreach drop-in sessions in
Cambridgeshire. The sessions are held in the offices of the local council
and a housing association, which means that we can reach even more
women and provide accessible, discreet support. Alongside working with
victims, Refuge’s outreach worker also undertakes significant work in the
community, working closely with local secondary schools to raise
awareness of domestic violence and promote healthy relationships.
4.7
Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment
An assessment of need was undertaken with regards to domestic abuse in
Cambridgeshire in 2013/14. It brings together global, national and local
research and sets this data against responses collated from a myriad of
key local partnerships, agencies and groups. Although, at times, key data
is sadly lacking, the volume, scope and spread of responses to our
request for information and analysis to support this work has provided as
comprehensive an assessment of need in this county as is currently
possible.
Police-reported domestic violence incidents have continued to increase
across Cambridgeshire (from 6991 in 2011/12 to 7620 in 2012/13), despite
a national decline in reported incidents. However, there remains a
significant statistical disparity between the volume of police-reported
incidents in the county and Crime Survey estimates for the prevalence of
domestic abuse across the adult population (7% of females and 5% of
males).
The increase in reporting is especially marked in new
communities.
Police and IDVA data shows an increase in the volume of domestic
violence / abuse incidents reported by children and young people.
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Data from voluntary sector providers indicates an increasing pressure on
their resources and capacity.
4.8
Partnership Working
The DASV Partnership work closely with the district Community Safety
Partnerships who have identified domestic abuse as a priority. In 2013-14
this work included attending Community Safety Partnership meetings to
update on issues of domestic abuse, submitting quarterly reports to each
CSP on domestic abuse data, engaging the CSPs in awareness raising
and providing access to free domestic abuse training to district staff.
There has also been close working with the Police and Crime
Commissioner (PCC) on the Strategic Vision for Support for Victims in
Cambridgeshire that details provision of services for victims of crime. A
representative from the Office of the PCC is a member of the Domestic
Abuse Governance Board.
The Partnership have been working closely with, and provided funding to,
the Bobby Scheme to fit security measures into the homes of domestic
abuse victims – 281 DA victims were supported this way in 2013-14.
5.0
Sexual Violence
5.1
Statistical Information
The data presented in this section is provided to the Cambridgeshire
County Council Research and Performance team by Cambridgeshire
Constabulary. It contains crimes of sexual violence recorded using the
National Recording Standards during each financial year, and is not based
on the reported date of occurrence.
Although the volume and rate of sexual violence remains comparably low
(and is falling) throughout the county, data from agencies such as
Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre (CRCC) and the Cambridgeshire Sexual
Assault and Referral Centre (SARC) strongly suggest that sexual violence
and assault is significantly under-reported. The Partnership is working with
key agencies to increase the reporting of sexual violence.
Nationally, Police recorded crime figures showed an increase of 17% in all
sexual offences for the year ending December 2013 compared with the
previous year (up from 52,222 to 60,894). This is the highest level
recorded since 2004/05, when 60,924 offences were recorded. Evidence
suggests some of this increase is likely to be a result of Operation
Yewtree, connected to the Jimmy Saville inquiry, initiated in October 2012.
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Local trend in Cambridgeshire also show an increase in sexual violence
offences across the county. South Cambridgeshire has shown a highest
increase in domestic violence offence from 61 in 2012/13 to 123 in
2013/14. Total for Cambridgeshire County is increased from 392 in
2012/13 to 547 in 2013/14. This increase was not only as a direct
consequence of the crimes reported as part of Operation Yewtree, but
also as a wider “Yewtree effect”, whereby there is increased willingness on
the part of the victims to come forward and report sexual offences that are
not directly connected to Yewtree1.
Table 8: Volume of sexual violence by district
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
Cambridge City
East
Cambridgeshire
145
131
126
138
109
124
59
32
40
46
35
56
Fenland
70
79
95
90
89
96
Huntingdonshire
South
Cambridgeshire
105
118
137
121
98
148
85
78
77
64
61
123
Cambs Total
464
438
475
459
392
547
Table 9: Rate of sexual violence offences by district
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
Cambridge City
1.23
1.10
1.05
1.14
0.89
1.01
East Cambridgeshire
0.74
0.40
0.48
0.55
0.42
0.67
Fenland
0.75
0.85
1.01
0.94
0.93
1.00
Huntingdonshire
0.64
0.72
0.83
0.73
0.58
0.88
South Cambs
0.60
0.54
0.53
0.44
0.41
0.83
Cambs Total
0.78
0.73
0.78
0.75
0.63
0.88
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Table 10: Trend of rate showing police-recorded sexual violence
5.1.2 CRCC telephone helpline and counselling Service:
Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre received 659 calls to their telephone
helpline service 1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014 (an increase of 47% on
last years figures) and enabled 14 women to access specialist sexual
violence face to face counselling (an increase of 50% on last year).
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35% of service users disclose that they have experienced or are
experiencing recent (within the last 12 months) or ongoing rape/sexual
violence.
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3% of service users disclose that they have experienced historic (more
than 12 months ago) rape/sexual violence.
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19% of service users disclose that they have experienced or are
experiencing recent or ongoing child sexual abuse.
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64% of service users disclose that they have experienced historic child
sexual abuse.
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69% of service users disclose that they have a mental or physical
disability.
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5.2
Awareness Raising
5.2.1 Young Peoples Sexual Violence Prevention Programme
Healthy Relationships and Understanding Sexual Consent
Workshops 2013
From our many years of experience of working in the area of sexual
violence we know that abuse, rape and sexual assault can and does occur
in teenage relationships. We believe in primary prevention and that taking
the time to talk openly and honestly to young people about topics such as
sexual consent, rape myths and grooming can empower them to help us in
stopping the spread of a culture that supports sexual violence.
The demand for placing prevention and youth education at the core of
ending violence against women and girls has lead us to developing and
piloting a series of workshops for young people, aimed at building selfawareness, better understanding of sexual consent, challenging the myths
of sexual violence & encouraging young people to adopt a critical
perspective on their attitudes to sexual violence and healthy relationships.
The aim of the Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre Young Peoples Sexual
Violence Prevention Programme is to prevent teenagers from becoming
victims and / or perpetrators of sexual violence and abuse. The workshops
on Healthy Relationships and Understanding Sexual Consent encourage
teenagers to re-think their views of rape, sexual assault, violence and
abuse, to better understand sexual consent and healthy relationships and
to direct them to places for help and advice.
In November and early December 2013 Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre
delivered the Young Peoples Sexual Violence Prevention programme at
the Cambridge Regional College. Ten Workshops on Healthy
Relationships and Understanding Sexual Consent were delivered to
students from across the college. In total 155 students attended the
workshops; 40 girls and 115 boys in all. Students attending the workshops
did so in their tutor groups and this included students who were studying;
mechanics, construction, administration, students from uniformed services
tutor groups and level three students with learning disabilities.
Each workshop was an hour in length and covered the following:
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Busting rape myths – understanding the definitions of rape and sexual
violence, prevalence, myths and harmful stereotypes, understanding
power and control dynamics.
Understanding sexual consent – verbal and non-verbal consent,
getting and giving consent
Healthy and unhealthy relationships – what is abusive behaviour
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Survivors experiences and how to support a survivor (case study used)
Where to go for help and support inside and outside college
At the end of each workshop students were asked to describe one thing
that they learnt from attending the session that they didn’t know before
and one thing they would like to know more about. Examples of responses
to these questions included:
One thing I have learnt today that I didn’t know before:
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How many women get raped – shocked!
About how control can be used in relationships in a bad way
Men can be raped too
Understanding about healthy and unhealthy relationships
That most people are raped by someone they know
Where you can go for help
That false allegations are actually rare
Where to get information and support if you are raped or abused
Unhealthy relationships often stem from things like jealousy and a
partner wanting to be in control
How to recognise the signs if you are in an unhealthy relationship
How to get and give consent
Rape myths
Definition of rape and what sexual assault actually is
Low conviction rates for rape
I would like to know more about:
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Sexual harassment
Reasons behind why men rape
I want to know more about rape prevention
Different forms of consent
How to tell if someone is in an abusive relationship
Statistics on rape in the UK
Different stories from survivors
More about child abuse
Want more information on healthy relationships and what makes an
unhealthy relationship
How to help a friend who has been raped or in an abusive relationship
5.2.2 The Partnership have formed links with the Cambridgeshire Race Equality
and Diversity Service (CREDS) who work with schools, parents/carers and
communities to support the achievement of minority ethnic, Gypsy, Roma
and Traveler children and young people. Their remit includes raising
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awareness of honor based violence, forced marriage and female genital
mutilation and we aim to improve information sharing around these issues
as part of the wider Violence Against Women and Girls agenda.
5.3
Staffing
The Partnership employs two full time Independent Sexual Violence
Advisors (ISVAs) that are based at Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre but
cover all of Cambridgeshire. The two Cambridgeshire ISVA’s started in
post in January 2014. Each ISVA has an open case load of between 26 –
30 clients who have experienced acute, recent or historical sexual
violence.
The ISVA’s are providing support, advocacy and advice covering a wide
range of issues and support needs. In particular the ISVA’s have provided
assistance in relation to:
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Providing independent and reliable advice to survivors of sexual
violence in relation to the police processes and the criminal justice
system
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Assisting clients who decided to report by facilitating the reporting of
the offence
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Supporting clients throughout their contact with the criminal justice
system, including support at Visually Recorded Interviews (VRI)
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Providing support in relation to the survivors sexual health, by enabling
access to follow up sexual health advice and screenings
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Managing risk taking behaviour and safety planning, carrying out risk
assessments and referring to MARAC where relevant
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Supporting clients pre-trial to enable them to give evidence safely with
appropriate special measures
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Organising pre-trial court visits for clients
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Supporting clients in liaising with employers, schools and other
academic institutions to explain mitigating circumstances
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Providing support and advocacy enabling survivors to access
appropriate substance misuse, mental health, housing and other
services
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5.4
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Assessing the client’s readiness for counselling and making referrals to
the Cambridge Rape Crisis counselling service
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Assisting with access to housing, social security and financial problems
impacting on victim’s recovery and wellbeing.
Funding
The Police and Crime Commissioner provided £35,000 across
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to develop specialist counselling (Rape
Crisis).
£27,000 was provided by CCC Adult Services to Choices in Cambridge –
sexual abuse counselling.
£70,000 was provided by Public Health for two Independent Sexual
Violence Advisor posts.
The Ministry of Justice, via the Police and Crime Commissioner, is funding
a two year pilot for a Young Persons ISVA post starting in October 2014,
covering Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
6.0
Children & Young People (CYP)
6.1
Cambridgeshire’s Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) undertook a
countywide scoping exercise on behalf of the Partnership in 2013 to
enable us to better understand the context of abuse across the county.
The recommendations of the plan will be put in to the LSCB Business plan
2014-5 for action by an LSCB CYP Domestic abuse task and finish group.
6.2
In October 2013 Cambridgeshire County Council’s Children, Families and
Adult services’ senior management team signed up to take part in a two
year project lead by the London based charity called Co-ordinated Action
Against Domestic Abuse (CAADA). The aim of the project is to support
local areas that wish to develop a care pathway for young people (aged 13
– 18) experiencing a range of intimate partner abuse, including domestic
abuse, sexual exploitation, gangs/young perpetrators, HBV/forced
marriage and cyber stalking. The programme integrates appropriate
elements from existing safeguarding and domestic abuse responses.
The two year programme started in April 2013 and is funded by the
Department for Education. CAADA is managing the programme and
contributing knowledge and skills in relation to intimate partner violence.
Currently Cambridgeshire has a dedicated post, Young People’s
Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (YPIDVA), to respond to young
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people’s domestic violence issues. The post is commissioned by the
Police and Crime Commissioner and managed within the county’s
Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA) service. The CAADA
programme’s main focus is early identification and intervention for under
18 years old young people. The county’s current YPIDVA post supports
high risk/need, over 18 years old young people who are mainly referred
from the police. The current service delivery is also in contradiction with
the initial aim of the post and its initial commissioning arrangement.
A number of pieces of work are planned over the next two years in relation
to the programme and regular reports will be provided to CAADA, the
Domestic Abuse Governance Board and the DASV Implementation Group.
6.3
A number of awareness raising activities took place in 2013-14 including
distributing materials for the Home Office This is Abuse campaign to
partners, formation of a working group of professionals working directly
with young people with the remit of developing healthy relationship
information. The Healthy Relationship workshops will be offered to
schools and delivered during 2014-15 school year. Funding has been
offered from two Community Safety Partnerships to deliver the workshops
in their areas.
6.4
The Partnership have developed a closer working relationship with
Children’s Social care and a number of arrangements have been
implemented to improve links further including protocols for IDVAs to
attend Child Protection Strategy meetings where a case meeting MARAC
threshold involves children.
7.0
Vulnerable Adults
7.1
A Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults project plan
was implemented in 2013 to capture work that overlaps or links the two
areas. Part of this work has included a protocol for IDVAs to attend SOVA
Strategy meetings where relevant and work with a learning disability
organisation to increase awareness of domestic abuse amongst this
service user group.
7.2
The number of Adult Safeguarding cases with a Domestic Abuse element
in 2012-13 was 54, this increased for 84 in 2013-14 – a 55% increase.
Work around establishing more robust data for domestic abuse incidents
involving people with disabilities and informal carers will be taken forward
during 2014.
7.3
The Partnership have been working with the Speak Out Council at
VoiceAbility to develop materials and guidance for people working with
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adults with learning disabilities that can be used to deliver informal
workshops with service users and that also offers advice on dealing with
disclosures. Information is also being produced in easy read format for
service users with disabilities advising on how to access support for
victims of domestic abuse.
8.0
Priorities for 2014-15
8.1
The Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment for 2014,
identified a number of gaps in service provision, including:
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8.2
A number of gaps in data regarding local facts, figures and trends were
also identified, including:
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8.3
Specialist interventions for children and young people affected as
direct or indirect victims of domestic violence / abuse;
A curriculum-based prevention and awareness programme for
schools;
Refuge-type provision for women with substance misuse problems;
Accessible specialist support in the community for those who use
violence / abuse in their relationships.
Children and young people as direct / indirect victims of domestic
violence / abuse;
The impact of non-specialist agency interventions on families
affected by domestic violence / abuse;
The impact of addressing domestic violence / abuse on nonspecialist agency resources;
The impact of repeat victimisation on individuals, families and
agencies;
Men as victims of domestic violence / abuse.
Based on the Needs Assessment, and other emerging priorities, the
Partnership has revised its Strategy for 2014-18. Not every case of
domestic abuse needs the same response – varying degrees and types of
support are needed from different organisations depending on the
circumstances of the individual victim, family or perpetrator. Our different
responses to domestic abuse happen at three distinct levels, as
demonstrated in the diagram below. This provides a ‘Model of Staged
Intervention for Domestic Abuse’, drawing on the Model of Staged
Intervention (MOSI) used by the County Council; The Victim and Offender
Strategies from the Police and Crime Commissioner; and the County
Council’s emerging approach to Early Help.
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8.4
The revised priorities for the Partnership for 2014-18 are set out below,
more detail can be found in Appendix 2 – Domestic Abuse Strategy 201418.
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We will prevent people from becoming perpetrators and victims of
domestic abuse
We will protect victims of domestic abuse and their families, whether or not
they choose to report crimes to the police
We will pursue perpetrators of domestic abuse through the criminal justice
system and ensure that they face the consequences of their actions
We will support victims to recover from the impact of domestic abuse
8.5
The contract for the provision of specialist women’s refuge services in
Cambridgeshire will be re-tendered during 2014, with new contracts being
in place by April 2015.
8.6
Additional funding for 2014-15 includes:
 £25,000 choices from Cambridgeshire County Council
 Police & Crime Commissioner - across Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Rape Crisis
 £30,000 to extend helplines by 100%
 £32,000 to develop peer support groups for survivors across
the area.
 £23,000 for a Young Person’s ISVA in Cambs for one year
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9.0
Also a post to support children who are victims of sexual violence at
the Sexual Assault Referral Cente, with CCC providing free clinical
supervision via Multi Systemic Therapy.
Appendices
Appendix 1: Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment 2014
Appendix 2: Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse Strategy 2014-18
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
21 October 2014
10:00 – 11:45
Committee Room 1 & 2
The Guildhall, Cambridge
Draft MINUTES
Board
Liz Bisset (Chair)
Mark Freeman
Lorraine Parker
Ann Sinnott
Cambridge City Council (Customer & Community Services)
Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Cambridge City Council
Members
Sonia Bargh
Cambridgeshire County Council Research and
Performance Team
Jessica Bendon
Cambridgeshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team
Lynda Kilkelly
Cambridge City Council (Safer Communities Section)
Adam Ratcliffe
Cambridge Business Against Crime
Louise Walker (Minutes) Cambridge City Council (Safer Communities Section)
In Attendance
Charles Kitchin
Maria Lambrou
Matthew Quinn
Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commission
(Director of Public Engagement and Communications)
Cambridge City Council (Neighbourhood Resolution Panel
Scheme Co-ordinator)
British Transport Police
1.
1.1
Welcome, housekeeping, introductions and apologies
Liz Bisset welcomed everyone and introduced Ann Sinnott representing Lewis
Herbert (Cambridge City Council), Jessica Bendon representing Susie Talbot
(Cambridgeshire Drug & Alcohol Action Team), Maria Lambrou (Cambridge
City Council) and Matthew Quinn (British Transport Police). There was 1
attending member of the public.
1.2
Apologies were received from Board members; Jo Curphey replacing Marie
Prior (Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire & Hertfordshire
Community Rehabilitation Company Limited (BeNCH CRC), Tom Dutton
(Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group), Richard
Dykes (Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue), Lorraine Lofting (Cambridgeshire
County Council) and Nick Oliver (Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS
Foundation Trust). Members; Mick Birchall (Cambridgeshire Constabulary),
Adrian Boyle (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Greg
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Dumbrell (Anglia Ruskin University), Peter Lester (Cambridge University
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) and Martin Vinnell (University of
Cambridge).
2.
2.1
Presentation: Neighbourhood Resolution Panel Scheme
Maria Lambrou provided a presentation outlining the Neighbourhood
Resolution Panel Scheme. This is a restorative justice (RJ) initiative, working
with the police and the anti-social behaviour (ASB) team to address crime and
non-crime incidents, including anti-social behaviour and disputes between
neighbours, in a positive and constructive way. The scheme brings parties
together in an RJ meeting, known as a panel, facilitated by trained volunteers.
Referrals are currently received from the police and the ASB team with some
very positive outcomes. Parties can decide what works best for them which
can increase outcome satisfaction and help prevent escalation, ultimately
saving time and the costs associated with repeat interventions by the police
and other agencies. Eighty per cent who participated in the scheme, and
provided feedback, were satisfied with the outcome and said that they would
recommend the scheme to those in similar situations. Work will continue to
ensure that referrals and positive resolutions for victims and complainants
continue to increase steadily over the next twelve months.
2.2
Ann Sinnott asked about the development of the number of referring agencies
and how the volunteers are recruited. Maria Lambrou responded that she is
presenting the scheme to city housing and that longer term, schools and other
establishments such as the universities could be involved. Volunteers are
recruited through a wide number of sources such as through the voluntary
sector, Anglia Ruskin University and University of Cambridge, also the Shape
Your Place website and some direct approaches by individuals.
3.
3.1
Election of Vice Chair
There being no nominations received for the role of Vice-Chair, this will be
discussed at the next meeting. In the interim, it was agreed for another
Cambridge City Council Board member to act as Chair, if Liz Bisset is not
available.
Action point 07/03
4.
4.1
Pre-advised questions from the general public
Mr. Lunt of Neighbourhood Watch submitted five written questions before the
meeting, which are in Appendix 1. The questions were answered at the
meeting:
 Cambridge CSP awareness of Neighbourhood Watch
Liz Bisset responded that there was a high level of awareness by the
Cambridge Community Safety Partnership (CSP). Lorraine Parker reported
that the police are closely involved with Neighbourhood Watch and are keen
to look at new ideas to support the scheme.
 Neighbourhood Watch supporting the aims of the Cambridge CSP
Charles Kitchin reported that the Police and Crime Commissioner wishes to
support the voluntary networks and to examine the best ways of working.
Mark Freeman welcomed both Neighbourhood Watch and the Residents
Associations to join the Cambridge Council For Voluntary Service (CCVS) as
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the charity represents the views of the voluntary sector at other meetings and
provide an additional flow of information.
 Computer and telephone scams and fraud
Liz Bisset responded that Cambridge CSP has priorities in its Plan 2014-17
which it can directly influence. The month of May is Scam Awareness Month
and the Cambridge CSP work with Trading Standards to circulate information
to raise awareness within their own organisations and to the general public.
Lorraine Parker stated that the police are undertaking a huge amount of
activity currently to combat this crime type.

Cooperative action against radicalisation
Liz Bisset responded that this is recorded in the Cambridge CSP Meeting
Minutes from 15 July as discussion took place regarding PREVENT. A sub
group has been formed, consisting of statutory agencies drawn partially but
not wholly from those that attend the CSP with an update at the next meeting.
 Public consultation on the Strategic Plan Year Two refresh
Lynda Kilkelly responded that there is wide public consultation for the three
year plan and not generally for the yearly refresh. Each year, information is on
the website regarding the process and included in public discussions.
5.
5.1
Minutes of 15 July 2014 meetings: Agreement.
The Minutes of 15 July 2014 meetings were agreed and would go forward for
publication.
6.
6.1
Action points: Review
All 9 Action points from previous meetings were discussed, with 4 carried
forward to the next CSP meeting.
7.
7.1
Update on the new Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2014
Lynda Kilkelly provided an update of the new Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and
Policing Act 2014, with all powers activated, apart from Civil Injunction.
7.2
The report had been approved at the Cambridge City Council Strategy and
Resources Scrutiny Committee on 29 September 2014. Lynda Kilkelly
requested that with regard to the Community Trigger the CSP Board agree
the Appeal Process as detailed in Appendix 1, explaining that the Problem
Solving Group will examine the actions of the involved agencies and that an
appeal will only occur if the applicant is not satisfied with how the review has
been dealt with.
7.3
Ann Sinnott asked if the Appeals Process has been requested to the CSP as
the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) did not wish to be involved in the
process. Charles Kitchin responded that there was no statutory requirement
for any specific organisation to undertake this and that the PCC wanted each
district to agree the process.
7.4
As not all of Board were present, it was agreed that the Board Members
would be contacted after the meeting to gain their view. Action point 10/01
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7.5
Ann Sinnott, on behalf of Lewis Herbert, requested information about the
publicising of the Community Trigger and whether the PCC was providing
funds. Lynda Kilkelly responded that promotion would be widespread, using
online methods and leaflets, where required. As there were no funds
available, Cambridge City Council Safer Communities Team had designed
and produced the leaflets. Charles Kitchin commented that the PCC could
assist with promotion by the Communications Team. It was agreed for the
leaflet to be circulated electronically after the meeting. Action point 10/02
7.6
Lynda Kilkelly reported that the Cambridge CSP would not need to attend the
PCC Star Chambers as the PCC was satisfied with our work.
8.
8.1
Crime and Disorder Report Q2 2014/15
Sonia Bargh spoke to the report, which included the 5 year trend. She
highlighted the continuing difficulty accessing ambulance data and that Tom
Dutton, Clinical Commissioning Group, and Dr Adrian Boyle, Cambridge
University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, are pursuing this on behalf of the
county.
Action point 04/01
8.2
Mark Freeman, who attends the South Cambridgeshire Community Safety
Partnership, asked if the changes in police recorded incidents were also
affecting the figures for Cambridge CSP. Sonia Bargh responded that for
Violence against the Person, the increase was possibly due to the change in
recording but that this was unclear.
8.3
Ann Sinnott commented that the national statistics for Domestic Abuse were
misleading in terms of gender representation. Sonia Bargh responded that it
was difficult to access the level of data and it was agreed to remove this from
future reports.
Action point 10/03
9.
9.1
Priority area progress reports: Q2 2014/15
Reducing alcohol-related violent crime
Lorraine Parker spoke to the report, noting partnership working with other
CSP members within the Alcohol Related Violent Crime Group.
9.2
Identifying & responding to emerging trends of victim based acquisitive
crime
Lorraine Parker spoke to the report presented and reported on some of the
activities undertaken to educate potential victims such as at the Universities.
9.3
Reducing anti-social behaviour
Lynda Kilkelly spoke to the report presented, highlighting that a monthly ASB
and racial harassment surgery will take place at a new community hub at
Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
9.4
Domestic Abuse – local work around awareness raising and training
On behalf of Lorraine Lofting, Louise Walker spoke to the report and it was
noted that different levels of training were being provided as appropriate to
front line staff. Ann Sinnott announced that a Domestic Abuse Forum is being
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developed. This will aim to extend beyond professionals, to involve the
community, and reduce the costly physical, emotional and monetary impacts.
9.5
“Snapshot” of local area priorities & issues
On behalf of Richard Dykes, Chair Liz Bisset provided an overview.
10.
10.1
Cambridgeshire Safer Communities Partnership Q2 2014/15
Jessica Bendon spoke to the report presented on behalf of Susie Talbot,
noting that there will be an Alcohol Awareness Week in November with other
activities being held during that month.
10.2
Liz Bisset provided an overview of the recent meeting of the county Domestic
Abuse Governance Board, noting the monitoring of the change in the MultiAgency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) Threshold.
11.
11.1
Reducing re-offending
As Mick Birchall had been unable to attend, this agenda item was postponed
until the next meeting.
12.
12.1
Any other business
On behalf of the British Transport Police, Matthew Quinn provided a
statement to request membership of the Cambridge CSP. As not all of Board
Members were present, Chair Liz Bisset agreed that the Board would be
contacted after the meeting to gain their view.
Action point 10/04
12.2
There being no other business, the meeting was closed at 11:45.
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Appendix 1
4.
Pre-advised questions from the general public.
Morcom Lunt, Cambridge wrote on 7 October 2014:I would like to submit the following two-part question to the next meeting of the
Cambridge Community Safety Partnership:
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Do members of the Board feel they know enough about Neighbourhood
Watch NHW given the views of the Police and Crime Commissioner about
NHW?
Would the Board please consider how Cambridge NWH might, if at all, best
support the aims of the CCSP?
Morcom Lunt submitted three more questions on 8 October 2014:1. I receive massively more information and warnings about, and personal
exposure to, computer and telephone based scams and frauds than any other
crime.
But I could not find any reference to such crime anywhere in the CCSP
Framework 2014-17 Year 1.
I appreciate the complexity of gathering facts about these topics, but is that an
adequate reason for not taking any cooperative action?
2. The national and local media do place excessive emphasis on the latest
"headline issue" but is there any doubt that radicalisation of some of the
young, particularly those whose ethnic roots are in North Africa, the Middle
East, or South Asia, is potentially very serious?
Relationships in Cambridge between the three Abrahamic religions is said to
be excellent. However, Cambridge is the home of two universities:
elsewhere universities and colleges have proven to be fertile grounds for
extreme radicals to persuade others to share their extremist views.
Again, should there not be consideration of possible cooperative action,
probably in conjunction with Prevent, CONTEST, and others?
3. When the Strategic Plan Refresh for Year 2 commences, will input from the
public be sought during the refresh (as a prelude to getting comments on the
proposed document from Area Committees)?
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
10 February 2015
Committee Rooms 1 & 2
The Guildhall, Cambridge
ACTION POINTS
Month/Number Action Point
10/02
CCSP to nominate a
representative for the
Government PREVENT
agenda after Cambridgeshire
Constabulary follow up
duplication in agency
representation.
04/01
CSP to be able to access
ambulance data more
regularly.
04/03
On behalf of CSP, Adrian Boyle
will attend the Cambridgeshire
and Peterborough Road Safety
Partnership and East of
England Major Trauma
Network joint planning day.
07/03
Election of Vice Chair as Neil
Sloan has moved post.
10/01
CSP Board to agree the
Community Trigger Appeal
Process.
10/02
Community Trigger leaflet to be
circulated electronically after
the meeting.
10/03
Removal of Domestic Abuse
national gender representation
in the Crime & Disorder
Quarter Reports.
10/04
Request for membership of the
CSP by the British Transport
Police.
Action
Chris Balmer to feedback at the
February 2015 CSP meeting.
Leigh Roberts to update on progress.
Closed: Adrian Boyle attended the
Road Safety joint planning day and
there have been no further
developments.
Agenda Item 3.
Closed: Board agreed the proposed
Appeal Process.
Closed: Louise Walker circulated the
leaflet electronically to CSP members
on 21 October 2014.
Closed: Sonia Bargh has removed the
national gender statistics in the Crime
& Disorder Quarter Report.
Closed: Board agreed membership by
the British Transport Police.
To:
From:
Date:
Cambridge Community Safety Partnership Board
Lynda Kilkelly
3 February 2015
Subject: Community Safety Plan 2014 – 2017 Year Two
1.
Purpose of the report
1.1
To present the first draft of the Cambridge Community Safety Plan 2014- 2017 Year
Two 2015-16 (the Plan) for consideration and comment by the Cambridge
Community Safety Partnership Board (The Board).
2.
Background
2.1
This is the latest in a series of 3 year community safety plans. This is year two of the
plan which will cover April 2015 to March 2016.
2.2
In order to guide the work of the Partnership over the coming year a Strategic
Assessment of crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour across the City was
commissioned in 2014.
2.2
The Board considered the Strategic Assessment 2014 at their development day in
November and agreed a set of priorities:
Strategic
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To understand the impact of mental health, alcohol and drug misuse on violent crime
and antisocial behaviour
To focus on a local strategic approach to domestic abuse with particular need to
reduce victimisation amongst vulnerable individuals
Tactically to address
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Personal acquisitive crime – identifying and responding to trends
Alcohol-related violent crime – extending beyond the City Centre where appropriate
Antisocial behaviour –new ways of working
To continue to track and support County led work on:

Reducing re-offending
The Partnership will keep a watching brief on road safety issues by:


Working collaboratively with politicians and the County Road Safety Partnership
Addressing local issues through the neighbourhood profiles at Area Committees.
3
The draft Year Two Plan
3.1
The first draft of the Plan is presented as Appendix A and endeavours to take into
account the feedback from the Board’s deliberations at their development day.
3.2
At the Partnership development day in November it was decided to continue to
concentrate on longer term strategic issues and consequently to look at the longer
term outcomes that we are hoping to achieve. Targets for the priority areas have not
been fully completed as Lead Officers for each of the areas feel there is a need for
open discussion by the Board on the approach to target setting.
4
Next Steps
4.1
Lead Officer on the priority areas will take away comments and requests for
amendments made by the Partnership Board today and develop a final draft.
4.2
Alongside the final draft Plan Lead Officer will make recommendations for the
commissioning of projects that will help to deliver the aims of the CSP Plan.
4.3
The final draft Plan and commissioning recommendations will be presented to the
Board in March for approval.
4.4
The final Plan will be published on 31 March.
5.
5.1
Recommendations
That the Board consider the draft plan and suggest any amendments they
think necessary including the appropriate targets and outcomes.
Further Information:
Lynda Kilkelly
Safer Communities Manager
Cambridge City Council
01223 457045
Appendix A
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COMMUNITY SAFETY PLAN
2014-17
(1
ST
YEAR TWO
APRIL 2015 – 31
ST
MARCH 2016)
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
Community Safety Plan 2014-17
Year Two (2015/2016)
Introduction from Cambridge Community Safety Partnership Board
Members
The Cambridge Community Safety Partnership (CSP) brings together a number of
agencies and organisations concerned with tackling and reducing crime and
antisocial behaviour in Cambridge. Some organisations, like the City Council and
the police, are statutory members, but voluntary groups and businesses are also
represented and play an important role.
Our key role is to understand the kind of community safety issues Cambridge is
experiencing; decide which of these are the most important to deal with; and then
decide what actions we can take collectively, adding value to the day-to-day work
undertaken by our individual agencies and organisations.
We detail these actions in our Community Safety Plan which we update each year.
To help us do that we commission an annual Strategic Assessment which looks at a
range of detailed information that exists about crime, disorder, substance abuse and
other community matters that are affecting Cambridge. In the light of this information
the assessment makes recommendations about how best to keep the Community
Safety Plan priorities on track for the next year.
Every three years we take a more in-depth look at everything we were doing and
consider whether we were on track and working on the priorities that are relevant to
the different communities within Cambridge. We did this last year and decided that
having consider the Strategic Assessment and consulted with the public and given
the success of the partnership over several years, with year on year reductions in
overall crime, it was a good time to concentrate on some longer term strategic
issues. The Strategic Assessment 2014 confirms that this continues to be the right
approach for 2015/16.
In producing our plan we have been mindful of the pledges of the Police and Crime
Commissioner in his crime plan 2013-16 and the requirement to 'have regard' to the
priorities that will be established by the commissioner in his plan.
The Cambridge Community Safety Partnership Board decided that the priorities for
2015/16 would be:
Strategic
 To understand the impact of mental health, alcohol and drug misuse on
violent crime and antisocial behaviour
 To focus on a local strategic approach to domestic abuse with particular need
to reduce victimisation amongst vulnerable individuals
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Tactically to address



Personal acquisitive crime – identifying and responding to trends
Alcohol-related violent crime – extending beyond the City Centre where
appropriate
Antisocial behaviour –new ways of working
To continue to track and support County led work on:
 Reducing re-offending
The Partnership will keep a watching brief on road safety issues by:
 Working collaboratively with politicians and the County Road Safety
Partnership
 Addressing local issues through the neighbourhood profiles at Area
Committees.
In Section 3 we tell you more about our priorities. We look at why these were
chosen in the first place, why they are relevant, and how we see the issues in the
second year of our three-year plan.
For each of the priorities, the lead officer produces a quarterly update. Like other
Cambridge CSP papers, these reports are open public documents and are available
on the Cambridge CSP webpage.
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Board Members of Cambridge Community Safety Partnership

Cambridge City Council
Liz Bisset

Cambridge City Council
Cllr. Lewis Herbert

Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service
Mark Freeman

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Probation Trust /BeNCH CRC Ltd

Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Lorraine Parker

Cambridgeshire County Council
Lorraine Lofting

Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
Richard Dykes

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical
Commissioning Group
Tom Dutton

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS
Foundation Trust
Nick Oliver
Hannah Waghorn
Marie Prior/Jo Curphey
Non- voting Members of Cambridge Community Safety Partnership

Anglia Ruskin University
Greg Dumbrell

British Transport Police
Matthew Quinn

Cambridge Business Against Crime (CAMBAC) Adam Ratcliffe

Cambridge City Council
Lynda Kilkelly

Cambridge City Council
Louise Walker

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust
Adrian Boyle
Peter Lester

Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Mick Birchall
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Cambridgeshire County Council
Research and Performance Team
Sonia Bargh

Cambridgeshire Drug and Alcohol Action
Susie Talbot

University of Cambridge
Martin Vinnell
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Contents
1. Achievements in 2014/15
7
2. What we did in each priority area
7
3. Community Safety Plan: Year One (2015/2016)
13
Priorities:
Strategic


To understand the impact of mental health, alcohol and drug
misuse on violent crime and anti-social behaviour
To focus on a local strategic approach to domestic abuse with
particular need to reduce victimisation amongst vulnerable
individuals
Tactically to address



Personal acquisitive crime – identifying and responding to trends
Alcohol-related violent crime – extending beyond the City Centre
where appropriate
Antisocial behaviour –new ways of working
To continue to track and support County led work on:
 Reducing re-offending
Track and support the county wide work being carried out on reducing reoffending
Keeping a watching brief on road safety issues
4. Contact us
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1. Achievements in 2014/15
The priorities for 2014/15 were:
Strategic

To understand the impact of mental health, alcohol and drug misuse on
violent crime and anti-social behaviour
Tactical




Alcohol-related violent crime
Antisocial behaviour
Personal acquisitive crime
Domestic abuse (with local work around awareness raising and training)
Track and support the county wide work being carried out on reducing re-offending
Keeping a watching brief on road safety issues
Progress
The Strategic Assessment 2014 notes that Cambridge City has recorded good
improvements in recent years in recorded crime levels. A number of crime types
have seen further reductions in the year to August 2014, theft from the person has
reduced by 17.4%, Shoplifting is down by 2.1%, cycle crime is down by 1.2%,
criminal damage is down by 5.9% and ASB has reduced by 10.9%. However, there
are areas where we have seen big increases, in particular in violence against the
person which is up by 42.5%, dwelling burglary increased by 35.5% with sexual
violence increased by 91.3%. We explain more about the background to these
increases and how we plan to tackle them in 2015/16 in section 3.
The partner agencies worked together in each of the priority areas, sharing
resources and focusing core business activity to achieve our aims. Each of the
member agencies contributed to the work of the Partnership, putting in staffing
resources or expertise. We also carried out a number of projects specifically
focused on priority issues and these are detailed below.
2. What we did in each priority area in 2014/15
Responding to emerging trends of personal acquisitive crime
 A daily review of recorded crime by Cambridgeshire Police continues to
identify opportunities to tackle the characteristics of offender/victim/location to
enable prevention, intelligence and enforcement activities to take place
prioritised against the greatest risk of harm.
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Cycle crime, the priority has been educating potential victims with over forty
sessions delivered in educational settings and at the Cambridge University
Students Union and Anglia Ruskin University Fresher’s Fairs by
Cambridgeshire Police. The LIT campaign aimed to ensure lights on cycles
and provided leaflets about cycle security.

Bobby Scheme, visits victims of burglary and vulnerable residents and helps
to secure their homes. From April – December 2014, 62 elderly victims of
crime and 61 vulnerable adults, who felt at risk of being a victim, were
supported. Home Fire Security checks were done at the time of the visits and
smoke alarms installed where necessary. This project is effective in dealing
with incidents of victimisation and reduces fear for victims.

MyBungee Phone Cables, were distributed by Cambridgeshire Constabulary.
The cables were given to people at night time events where the risk was high
that they would be targeted by organised crime groups who come to the City
to steal mobile phones. This project has led to increased awareness,
promotion of Immobilise (a register used by police to trace the owners of
stolen property) and a reduction in offences.

Personal Attack Alarms, were distributed by Cambridgeshire Constabulary to
vulnerable people in the city. During October and November 2014, there were
a number of incidents including sexual assaults which were linked to Foreign
Service personnel who were visiting the city. This led to a heightened sense of
vulnerability in the city and a number of alarms were issued in response to
this. This project has provided protection and public reassurance.
Reducing alcohol related violent crime
 Operation Sodium operated with Cambridgeshire Constabulary continuing
with hotspot policing and early intervention at licensed premises in the City
Centre night time economy.

Taxi Marshal Scheme, organised by Cambridge Business Against Crime
(CAMBAC), provided marshals for the month of December 2014 on St
Andrews Street taxi rank. The total number of people marshalled through the
rank was 7257, with 281 vulnerable lone females given priority. 1016 people
were marshalled through on New Year’s Eve alone. This project takes
pressure off the police by providing a visible presence at a known hot spot for
violence.

Care Venue, an alternative medical treatment and care facility, operated on
the 19 and 31 December 2014. Organisations involved were 254 Medical
Regiment, East of England Ambulance Service Trust, St John Ambulance,
Street Pastors and Cambridgeshire Police. 22 people were provided with
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medical treatment and an uncaptured number of people were also treated by
Care Facility staff on the streets. This project reduced the pressure on
Addenbrooke’s Hospital A&E Department.

Safe Refuge, organised by the Street Pastors, was supported by the
Community Safety Partnership to provide a professional door supervisor to
enable the project to operate on a permanent Saturday night basis. It
successfully operated on 39 Saturday nights during the year and also on 19
and 31 December 2014. 1152 people used the facility in 2014, compared to
408 in 2013, for purposes ranging from a safe place to wait, for pastoral care
or practical assistance such as a blanket or foot protection.

“ReHydrate” Pilot Project, organised by Cambridge Business Against Crime
(CAMBAC), aims to make access to water in licensed premises easier by
installing industrial strength water dispensers in 3 pilot venues. This is aimed
at tackling the issue of binge drinking and ‘pre-loading’ by customers and,
coupled with a marketing campaign, aims to allow customers to rehydrate
whilst drinking. This is in response to a marked increase in violent crimes
linked to the night time economy.
New ways of working to address Anti-social behaviour (ASB)
 Neighbourhood Resolution Panels (NRP), provide positive outcomes to those
affected by crime, ASB or neighbour disputes by enabling people to work
together to find some kind of meaningful resolution. There have been 24
referrals from the police and Council Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) team,
covering a wide range of issues, resulting in some very positive outcomes.
Eighty percent of those who participated and provided feedback were satisfied
with the outcome and said that they would recommend the scheme to those in
similar situations. This method can help prevent escalation, ultimately saving
time and the costs associated with repeat interventions by the police and
other agencies.

Communications Programme, alongside an extensive programme of surgeries
and residents meetings, the City Council ASB Team has been very successful
in reaching out to residents with whom they may not have previously engaged.
For example meetings have been held with the Saheli Womens’ Group,
representatives of the Sikh Community, a residents meeting at Corona House
and a community safety event at a sheltered scheme. They have also set up a
monthly hub at Addenbrookes where people can drop in and talk about any
ASB issues that they are experiencing. Relationships with private
accommodation providers such as Anglia Ruskin University are being further
developed. The Team continues to deliver interactive sessions about ASB to
children and young people from across the City.
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ASB Pilot Scheme is aimed at working across agencies with people who have
been involved with street based ASB and have complex support needs due to
mental health issues and possible alcohol and drug misuse. Action plans were
produced with partner support agencies to develop models to best serve the
needs of the individual.
Of the nine people currently on the pilot, six are continuing to engage with the
process and four of those have shown a real commitment to making
significant changes to their lifestyles in order to move forward and as such
are attending regular core group meetings with the co-ordinator and their key
support workers. They have all identified their own difficulties with accessing
support or services, which for them may trigger disengagement or relapse.
They have said that they found the experience to positive, one has suggested
the meetings should be weekly, another has asked that he is able to continue
with the pilot even though he is now in full-time work and ready to move into
his own accommodation. The name of the pilot has been changed to
Supporting People and Preventing ASB in order to more clearly reflect the
aims of the project.

Choices, a multi-agency project led by Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue
Service, worked with 10 young people aged 13-14, who were identified by the
joint locality teams to reduce incidents of ASB and fire setting. The
programme provided positive role models, practical exercises designed to
enhance the sense of self-worth and the confidence to make appropriate
behavioural choices.
Tracking and supporting County led work on domestic abuse with local work
around awareness raising and training
 A dedicated Police unit continues to be responsible for Domestic Violence
(DAISU), with significant resources deployed in this area that are improving
the response to domestic violence incidents and crimes countywide.

The Impact Team, based at Parkside Police Station, has taken on an
additional new role aimed at reducing offending against the city’s most
vulnerable domestic violence victims. Restraining Orders and Bail Conditions
are designed to give the police the ability to protect victims from further
offences before they happen. The Impact Team are supporting vulnerable
victims of Domestic Violence by pro-actively checking that their perpetrators
are adhering to the conditions.

Operation Rossetti, started in November 2014: There is a dedicated domestic
abuse car responding on the highest reporting days to calls for services on
Saturdays and Sundays late afternoon and into the evening.
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
Bobby Scheme, co-ordinated by the Cambridgeshire Police Shrievalty Trust,
visits and secures the homes of high risk Domestic Abuse victims. From April
– December 2014, 34 high risk victims with 25 children in the home were
supported. There have been no domestic abuse repeat incidents within this
group. This project improved feeling of safety, confidence and well-being of
victims, in addition to increased independence.

Radio Adverts, a campaign on Heart FM ran from 1October – 31 December
2014, with 40 second adverts that ran approximately 40 times per day. The
advert was potentially heard by 300,000 people in Cambridgeshire per week
and ran at the same time as campaigns in the national media and by
Cambridgeshire Constabulary. It is not possible to quantify the impact of this
project but it delivered the aim of awareness raising and information for the
general public in an informal way.

Healthy Relationships workshops, two were delivered to school pupils aged
12-14 years by the Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
Team in partnership with Centre 33 and SexYOUAlity, with the locality team
supporting the school and pupils afterwards. The workshops were delivered
to groups of around 30 pupils at a time, covering issues around teenage
relationship abuse, sexual health, consent and keeping safe. This project
increased awareness and confidence for the participants, with clear
signposting for future reference.

Awareness event, a Cambridge City Domestic Violence Forum was launched
in recognition of the role that the community can play to eradicate domestic
abuse and sexual violence. Attendees represented leading figures from the
City’s Institutions, large employers, relevant voluntary organisations,
community safety services, sports clubs and music venues. The Forum aims
to meet quarterly.

Updating information for Medical Practices - Working with Cambridgeshire &
Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group, the Cambridgeshire Domestic
Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership ‘Service Provision for Professionals’
was circulated to 108 Cambridge Medical Practices. This ensured that Medical
Practices had the most up to date information to be able to advise Patients,
their family and friends.

Raising awareness for communities - Posters were distributed to recreational
and community centres, housing, the central library, the tourist office, the park
and ride sites, venues showing World Cup matches, to voluntary groups and
to all of the medical practices in Cambridge City and across Cambridgeshire.
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Training frontline staff – A total of 49 staff were trained, 19 Cambridge City
Council frontline staff attended the two day county training and 30 attended
bespoke training provided by Simon Kerss, Manager of the Cambridgeshire
Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership.
Tracking and supporting the County led work on re-offending
 Integrated Offender Management (IOM) continues to work effectively across
the city and engage with offenders.

All IOM offenders continue to be managed on the ECINS system countywide,
which enables information sharing across the multiple partners within the
county and the city.

CSP funding provided practical support to enable access to long term
interventions such as identification, basic furniture and provisions to
commence own tenancy.
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Community Safety Plan: Year Two (2015/2016)
Strategic Priorities
Priority 1: To understand the impact of mental health, alcohol and drug misuse
on violent crime and antisocial behaviour so that we can deliver a service that
better supports customers, provides sustainable solutions and identifies clear
care pathways
Why have we chosen this priority?
The Cambridge Community Safety Partnership has been successful in contributing
to reductions in most crime types year on year. For this reason the Partnership has
decided to take a step back from the previous tactical approach and look at longer
term issues underlying the causes of crime and disorder. Recent research into street
based antisocial behaviour and the experience of frontline workers across the
partner organisations has highlighted the need for a better understanding of the
impact of mental ill health, alcohol and drug dependencies on violent crime and
antisocial behaviour. Partner agencies have been responding to cases of crime and
antisocial behaviour, where mental ill health, and drug and alcohol dependencies are
present in many of the different client groups including the street life community and
other local communities, young people, domestic abuse perpetrators and prolific
offenders. We are also aware that people with mental ill health, drug and alcohol
dependencies are significantly represented as victims of crime and anti-social
behaviour across all the client groups.
Closer working with our colleagues in Mental Health and social services is essential if
we are to understand and support both the victims and perpetrators of these crimes
and get the right balance between prevention, support and enforcement. This
strategic priority is aspirational and long term, the Partnership sees this as a three
year endeavour, starting in the first year to link with the current work streams, for
example linking with the work of the Countywide Dual Diagnosis Group who will be
looking at how well the service is operating for people with substance misuse and
mental ill health issues.
What do we aim to do?
We will focus on the development of interventions in cases where the Mental Health
Act thresholds are not met. We will engage in constructive dialogue with our mental
health partners around the options available when a person’s mental health issues
do not meet the criteria for a Mental Health Act assessment for certain kinds of
mental health diagnosis.
We will endeavour to agree risk assessment procedures across partner agencies to
identify levels of risk and vulnerability.
We will work to improve the trust between mental health and social care agencies
and other agencies dealing with community safety issues in order to enhance
information sharing.
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We will support the work of the Health and Wellbeing Board, particularly around their
priority ‘to create a safe environment and to help to build strong communities,
wellbeing and mental health’.
We will support the work of the Drug and Alcohol Action team.
Delivery
In order to strengthen our links to the work being done on mental health we have
invited a representative from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation
Trust to sit on the Partnership Board to help direct the work on this priority.
We will explore existing research and services to better inform our evidence base
and increase our understanding for future work.
Where funding allows we will carry out local research work, like the recent research
into street-based antisocial behaviour.
This will help us towards a better
understanding of local community issues and enable us to provide more effective
services.
Outcomes in the first year of this priority
Now that we have secured a representative from mental health services to sit on the
Board we will identify the gaps in data and information, particularly around the
diagnosis and treatment of people with both mental health and drug and/or alcohol
issues.
We will continue to run the pilot scheme with a group of people involved in antisocial
behaviour to examine the support they receive in relation to their mental health and
possible alcohol and drug issues and identify any potential gaps and barriers to
providing an appropriate service.
Lead Officer: Chair of the Community Safety Partnership
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Priority 2: Domestic Abuse - focus on a local strategic approach to domestic
abuse with particular need to reduce victimisation amongst vulnerable
individuals
Proposals for 2015-16
A comprehensive needs assessment carried out in 2013-14 identified a gap in
Cambridgeshire’s response to domestic violence/abuse regarding Specialist
interventions for children and young people affected as direct or indirect victims of
domestic violence / abuse and a curriculum-based prevention and awareness
programme for schools. In order to address these, the Domestic Abuse Strategy for
2014-18, developed by the multi-agency Domestic Abuse Governance Board, states
that the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership will provide new specialist
interventions for children and young people affected as direct or indirect victims of
domestic abuse. Furthermore, the Model of Staged Intervention for the Strategy
includes, at level 2, work to build protective factors into communities – for example
by educating people about what constitutes domestic abuse; and educating children
and young people about healthy relationships.
In order to reflect the Needs Assessment and Domestic Abuse Strategy, it is
suggested that Cambridge City CSP make providing healthy relationships
information to children and young people a priority in 2015-16. The Healthy
Relationships Workshops that City CSP agreed to fund in 2014-15 will be booked in
2014-15 financial year but some won’t be delivered until 2015/16 financial year due
to school timetables. In 2013-14 the Local Safeguarding Children Board financed
the social enterprise AlterEgo Creative Solutions to deliver the play ‘Chelsea’s
Choice’ to all year 9 pupils across Cambridgeshire. The approach was evaluated as
very impactful project by young people and professionals. The play covers the
themes of sexual consent, drugs and alcohol, child sexual exploitation and healthy
relationships and it is planned to deliver the play to all Cambridgeshire 2015/16
academic year 9 pupils. The County Council has made some funding available
towards the delivery but would require additional funding from CSPs in order to
deliver the play in each CSP area. This has been forthcoming form other CSPs and
provides a strong partnership vehicle to address strategic concerns with schools and
the County Council. It is proposed that the evaluation of the approach last year can
be used to enhance impact with some preparatory work with pupils prior to the
performances and availability of post-performance support and follow through.
The DASV Partnership developed a domestic abuse basic awareness e-learning
module in 2014 that is currently available to Cambridgeshire County Council staff
only. However, work is in progress to make the module available on an external site
so that it can be accessed by all partners and their staff free of charge. More
information will be known about this option in late January 2015.
Lead Officer: Head of Service for Localities and Partnership, County Council
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Tactical Priorities
Priority 1: Personal acquisitive crime – identifying and responding to trends
Why have we chosen this priority?
The Strategic Assessment 2014 outlines that these issues have been previously
prioritised for action by the Community Safety Partnership and many have seen
significant reductions or stabilisation over the past years. Due to the nature of these
crime types, and from the knowledge within the Community Safety Partnership, there
are particular periods in the year when these crimes may rise or spike. In the past
such spikes or seasonal increases have been detrimental to the overall crime
recorded in the city, so addressing such matters is essential to making the
community feel safer.
What do we aim to do?
Tackle personal acquisitive crime by assessing the threat/risk/harm posed to the
individuals affected as well as considering the particular crime types of dwelling
burglary and personal robbery, vehicle crime, theft from the person and theft of pedal
cycles. The impact upon the individual can be varied and in some cases can be
dramatic and particularly harmful.
Identify emerging trends in relation to victim based crime in Cambridge at the earliest
stage.
Respond, using all appropriate partnership resources and assets, to the identified
emerging victim based crime trends, so as to swiftly mitigate the ongoing risk to the
victim of such crime.
Use the professional knowledge within the Community Safety Partnership and
understanding of the local crime patterns and seasonal trends so as to be forward
thinking and take a preventative approach in advance of any anticipated rise in victim
based crime.
To apply the prevention, intelligence and enforcement model to tackle the
characteristics of offenders, victims and locations.
Continue to work closely with the Integrated Offender Management (IOM) process so
the most prolific individuals are managed away from offending.
Delivery
Track monitor and evaluate victim based crime trends on a daily, weekly and monthly
basis to spot any emerging trends at the earliest opportunity.
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Draw together all appropriate Community Safety Partnership resources, when
required, in order to deliver the appropriate tactical response to an emergence of a
particular type of victim based crime.
Create bespoke Task and Finish groups to work in partnership on longer term or
more complex victim based crime issues, with focus on longer term prevention and
reduction.
Targets
Reduction dwelling burglary and robbery
Lead Officer: Communities Chief Inspector, Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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Priority 2: Alcohol-related violent crime – extending beyond the City Centre
where appropriate
Why was this priority chosen?
The Strategic Assessment 2014 identifies that Police recorded Violence Against the
Person (VAP) has seen an increase of 48% over the last 12 months (October 2013
to September 2014 compared with October 2012 to September 2013). Nationally
police recorded violence also saw an increase of 11% comparing the 12 months
ending June 2014 with the previous 12 months. Therefore the level of increase seen
in Cambridge City is far higher than that reported nationally. The Office of National
[1]
Statistics says that the latest rise in VAP recorded by the police is in contrast to the
falls shown by the Crime Survey and figures on attendances at Accident and
Emergency departments due to violent assaults. Attendances at Addenbrooke’s
Accident and Emergency which are reported as assault is showing as stable.
The Strategic Assessment identifies that Market Ward does contribute towards the
city’s violent crime picture due to the associated link to the night time economy.
The Strategic Assessment notes that increases have been identified in hotspots
outside of the City Centre area.
The Community Safety Partnership recognises the personal impact that violent crime
has upon the victim and often the long term effect this type of crime can have on the
victim, their family, the community, as well as the downstream impact upon
emergency and treatment services. Additionally, the Community Safety Partnership
recognises how ‘transient communities‘ such as, students, tourists and visitors can
be affected by this crime in the same way in which longer term city residents can.
Therefore the Community Safety Partnership retains alcohol-related violent crime as
a priority with a focus on looking wider than just Market Ward when addressing
violent crime and in particular alcohol-related violent crime.
Further analytical work was commissioned to help to understand the problem,
especially the characteristics of victims, offenders and locations to ensure the actions
taken to tackle the problem are fit for purpose and not a one size fits all approach.
The analysis identified two areas in particular required greater focus the Market and
Abbey Wards.
What do we aim to do?
Maintain the embedded and strong partnership working group of the Alcohol-Related
Violent Crime (ARVC) Task group. This group will continue to focus on violent crime
directly linked to the consumption of alcohol and retain its proactive and forward
looking approach.
To look at city wide alcohol related violent crime rather than just focusing on the city
centre and associated night time economy.
[1]
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_380538.pdf ONS Statistical bulletin: Crime in England and Wales,
Year Ending June 2014, page 25
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Create a safe and secure environment for those who live, visit and work in
Cambridge by using the group’s understanding of city and national events or
celebrations and ensure that they are peaceful and enjoyed by all.
Delivery
This priority will be managed by the Alcohol Related Violent Crime Task Group
(ARVC) under the guidance of the priority lead. The membership of the ARVC is
reflective of the nature of the violent crime in the city and comprises individuals and
agencies that have the professional capacity to deliver against the priority. The
ARVC includes representatives from the police, City Council, the health services
(Accident and Emergency and Ambulance Service), the universities, the business
community represented by CAMBAC, alcohol treatment services, the private security
industry and the voluntary sector through agencies such as the Street Pastors.
Sub groups have been established to tackle the issues in Market and Abbey Ward
and the ARVC is pursuing greater participation by involving the communities
themselves and local councillors.
Targets
A measurable decrease in alcohol-related violence across all previous means of
recording including Police, A and E, Crime Survey of E and W
A closer convergence between violent crime figures from 2014/201d to 2015/2016
Lead Officer: Communities Chief Inspector, Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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DRAFT
Year Two
Priority 3: Antisocial behaviour –new ways of working
Why has this priority been chosen?
The Strategic Assessment 2014 confirmed the continuing downward trend in antisocial behaviour both nationally and locally. In the year to June 2014 anti-social
behaviour police recorded incidents for Cambridge had decreased by 7% when
compared with the previous year. The City has recorded year on year reductions
since 2009/10. The rate of incidents was 58 per 1,000 in 2009/10 and has dropped
to 36 per 1,000 in 2013/14. However, recordings are now showing a slower
downward trend and are expected to plateau.
There are still hotspots of anti-social behaviour in the City. The Strategic
Assessment notes the wards with the highest rates of anti-social behaviour citing
Market and Petersfield as the top two. Public concern remains high about the issues
of drinking related anti-social behaviour in these areas.
Last year because of the downward trend in incidents the Partnership Board decided
to take a longer term strategic view of anti-social behaviour issues. The focus has
shifted from reducing police recorded incidents to taking a longer term approach to
the work we do. We want to find new ways of working across organisations that are
more outcomes focused for the service user. We will continue the work to help
support the most vulnerable in the community, both victims and offenders who are
often dependent on drugs and alcohol and have mental health issues. We will also
use the new powers which have been made available through the Anti-social
Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to robustly enforce where necessary.
What do we aim to do?
We aim to continue to focus on vulnerable victims and offenders in neighbourhoods
and among the street life community, ensuring that service users and everyone who
lives works and visits Cambridge is free from harassment or intimidation by the
behaviour of others.
We intend to do this by continuing the work of the ‘Supporting People and Preventing
Anti-social Behaviour’ pilot which started last year. Through this pilot we are working
with a cohort of people with medium level of needs in terms of support to manage
alcohol and substance misuse or mental health issues.
We will also work on approaches to support and enforce where the tenancies of
vulnerable people are being used by drug dealers to ply their trade.
We will support the City Council in the introduction of Public Spaces Protection
Orders by contributing to the evidence base where appropriate.
Delivery
To deliver against this priority the Cambridge CSP will:
Continue the work of the ‘Supporting People and Preventing Anti-social Behaviour’
pilot using the evaluation of Phase 1 of the pilot to influence the work in Phase 2
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DRAFT
Year Two
Continue the work of the multi-agency problem solving group dealing with individual
anti-social behaviour cases, including the support and enforcement around
vulnerable people whose tenancies are being used by drug dealers
Investigate the issues in hotspot areas and gather evidence for the use of the new
powers in the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
Targets
Lead Officer: Safer Communities Manager, Cambridge City Council
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DRAFT
Year Two
Tracking and supporting the county led work on re-offending
The Partnership has also committed to tracking and supporting County led work on
re-offending. The work to address re-offending is carried out mainly but not
exclusively by the Integrated Offender Management Scheme, the scheme manages
the most prolific adult offender.
The aims of the scheme will be delivered via the joint working arrangements brought
together through the Cambridge Community Safety Partnership and other relevant
partnerships, such as the Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse Partnership, Local
Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB), Children’s Area Partnerships and Health and
Wellbeing Board.
Keeping a watching Brief on road safety issues
The Partnership will keep a watching brief on road safety issues by working
collaboratively with politicians and the County Road Safety Partnership and
addressing local issues through the neighbourhood profiles at Area Committees.
Contact us
Any comments or queries on this Year Two (2015/16) version of the Community
Safety Plan, should be addressed to:
Partnership Support Officer
Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
Safer Communities Section
Cambridge City Council
PO Box 700
Cambridge
CB1 0JH
Telephone:
Email:
Web:
01223 457808
safer.communities@cambridge.gov.uk
www.cambridge.gov.uk
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UNCLASSIFIED
Cambridge City
Community Safety Partnership
2014/15
Quarter Three
Crime & Disorder Report
AUTHOR:
CONTACT NO:
DATE:
PRODUCED FOR:
Cambridgeshire County Council
01223 715300
February 2015
Cambridge City Community Safety Partnership
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Summary table: Quarter three of 2014 /15
Not all of the partnership targets (shown in appendix 1) are monitored on a quarterly
basis. This is because some measures require some detailed analysis e.g. the annual
reoffending rate for offenders on the Integrated Offender Management Scheme.
Progress on targets monitored as part of this report are shown below
Target
Current performance
Reducing alcohol related violence
Violence against the person
Presentations for assault at A&E
Ambulance call-outs for assault
Reducing antisocial behaviour
ASB police recorded incidents




Responding to emerging trends of victim based acquisitive crime
 Serious acquisitive crime

Cycle theft

Theft from person



Key:
 Below the previous year and below the three year average
 Above the previous year but below the three year average
 Above thefive year average
NB – Not all of the data for December 2015 was available at the time of publishing this
report. Therefore it has been released as a draft and will be re-published when the full
dataset is available.
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National data
In order to be able to compare Cambridge City to national figures, table 1 has been included.
The table shows selected crime types with a national rate and the most similar group
average rate alongside the rate for Cambridge City.
Table 1: Comparator information by national trend and most similar group average
(MSG) compared to Cambridge City
National rate per
MSG average rate
Rate per 1,000
1,000 people for
per 1,000 people
people in
Crime type
England and Wales
Cambridge City
Time period cover
Year ending
September 2014
Rolling 12 months to
December 2014
Rolling 12 months to
December 2014
Violence against the
person
12
13.8
13.9
8.7
10.1
9.7
Vehicle crime
6
3.9
4.0
Cycle theft
2
17.6
17.6
Dwelling burglary*
*Dwelling burglary is measured as a rate per 1,000 households
Most similar groups (MSG) have been changed recently in October 2014. The new MSG list
is provided in Appendix 2 along with the old MSG.
1. Reducing alcohol related violent crime
1.1 Police recorded violence against the person (VAP)
There was an increase of 489 offences year to date (April to December) of the financial year
2014/15 comparing to the same period last year (2013/14). This is an increase from 882 to
1,371 offences. It is also higher than the 5 year average (1,146 offences).
Although there appears to be a sharp increase in violence against the person in Cambridge
City, the Constabulary have looked at this increase and have noted that since November
there has been a strict application of National Crime Recording Standards which could lead
to an increase in recording onto the Crime file system1. A detailed analysis of the increase in
VAP was included in the annual strategic assessment report 2014/15 for Cambridge City.
1
Taken from Detective Chief Inspector Lorraine Parker’s briefing note 26/06/14
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The key finding of the analysis was that the recent increase in police recorded violence
against the person (VAP) is probably a mixture of changes in recording practices and an
increase in VAP. However this is not supported by data from Ambulance call outs or
attendances at Addenbrookes Accident and Emergency.
Chart 1:
1. 2 Presentations to the A&E Department
For the year to date (April to December) of the financial year 2014/15 the number of
presentations for assault was 588 which is 33 less than for the same period last year 621
assaults. It is still below the 5 years average of 745 presentations for year to date.
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Chart 2:
Addenbrookes data was taken as a whole, based on the total number of cases recorded by
the hospital, irrespective of the district where the patient lives.
1.3 Ambulance call outs for assault
Ambulance call outs data have only been provided with the postcode district, first 3 letters of
a postcode. This means the district of the assault is the only known geographic output,
therefore it is not known if the assault occurs within a pub cluster.
For the year to date (April-November) of the financial year 2014/15 there have been 175 call
outs in Cambridge, compared to 227 for the same period in 2013/14. This is a reduction of
52 call outs.
Chart 3:
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2. Domestic Abuse
The Crime Survey of England and Wales found that 7.1% of women and 4.4% of men
reported having experienced any type of domestic abuse in the year 2012/ 2013.2
For the year to date (April to November) of financial year 2014/15 there were 1,335 domestic
abuse incidents recorded by the police. This is 223 incidents higher than the same period
last year (1,112 incidents) and higher than the 5-year average (1,178 incidents). The current
aim is to increase reporting as domestic abuse continues to be substantially under-reported.
This is so that more victims can access support.
Chart 4:
2
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/focus-on-violent-crime-and-sexual-offences--201213/rpt---chapter-4---intimate-personal-violence-and-partner-abuse.html#tab-conclusions
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3. Responding to emerging trends of victim based acquisitive crime
3.1 Serious acquisitive crime
Acquisitive crime accounts for a high volume of crime. There are several crime types that are
categorised as acquisitive crime. For the purpose of this report certain crime types were
selected for serious acquisitive crime, this included: dwelling burglary, personal robbery,
vehicle crime.
For the year to date (April-December) of the financial year 2014/15 serious acquisitive crime
has decreased by 26 incidents, which is a decrease from 822 to 796 for the same period in
2013/14. This is also less than the five year average which is 1,066 crimes.
Chart 5:
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Table 2 shows the breakdown of the crimes that make up serious acquisitive crime and
show that personal robbery increased by 13 crimes compared to the same period last year.
Overall, serious acquisitive crime has seen a reduction year to date.
Table 2: Serious Acquisitive Crime breakdown
2014/15 2014/15 2014/15
Q1
Q2
Q3
2014/15
Q4
Trend3
2013/14
total
Dwelling burglary
87
135
129
UP 5
467
Vehicle crime
98
118
163
546
Personal robbery
18
24
24
DOWN
44
UP 13
Total SAC
203
277
316
DOWN
26
81
1,094
3.2 Cycle Theft
There was an increase of 278 offences for the year to date (April to December) of the
financial year 2014/15 compared to the same period last year 2013/14. This is an increase
from 1,559 offences to 1,837 offences respectively and offences are below the five year
average of 1,883 offences.
Chart 6:
3
This is year to date trend
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3.3 Theft from the Person
There was an increase of 33 offences for the year to date (April to December) of financial
year 2014/15 compared to the same period last year 2013/14. This is an increase from 250
to 283 offences and is still below the five year average of 318 offences.
Chart 7:
4. Reducing Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)
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Comparing the year to date (April to November) of financial year 2014/15 to the same period
last year (2013/14), there has been a reduction of 152 incidents of ASB. The number of
incidents has decreased from 3,383 to 3,231 incidents and it still remains below the 5-year
average (4,508 incidents).
Chart 8:
4.1 Street Life
During 2013, an additional piece of work was done on the nature of street life anti-social
behaviour. It was decided that additional monitoring should be done on this during 2014/15
as anti-social behaviour is a priority for the partnership.
Chart 9 shows all ASB incidents that contain the selected keywords (homeless, abusive
language, drunk, begging, and alcohol) by month within the extended city area. For the year
to date (April to November) of financial year 2014/15 there have been 399 incidents involving
all keywords in the City extended area, this is an increase by 76.5% compared to last year
where only 226 incidents were recorded in the same time period. However it’s below the 3
year average of 472 incidents.
Chart 9:
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**The keywords include homeless, abusive language, drunk, begging, and alcohol
Table 2 shows the proportion of ASB incidents which contained the selected keywords.
Incidents which contained the keywords begging and homeless accounted for 3.4% of the all
ASB incidents in quarter 3 (October and November).
Table 2: Street life associated ASB incidents within extended city area, determined by
keyword search by quarter
2014/15
All
ASB
Just begging and
homeless
as All keywords
keywords
proportion
proportion of
Count
Count
of all ASB
all ASB
Q1
1,203
47
3.9%
140
11.6%
Q2
1,241
46
3.7%
163
13.1%
Q3*
787
27
3.4%
95
12.1%
-4.5%
4.3%
Q4
% change compared to same period
last year
76.5%
*Data for December month is not included
Appendix 1
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All Partnership Priorities and targets4
Strategic
To understand the impact of mental health, alcohol and drug misuse on violent crime and
antisocial behaviour
Tactically
Alcohol-related violent crime
 To reduce 'all violence against the person' by 5 percent (80 offences) for
2014/2015 compared with 2013/2014.
 To record less than 900 presentations to the A&E department at Addenbrooke’s
Hospital by March 2015, where the cause of injury is coded as assault (compared
to a baseline of 1100 in 2013/14).
Personal acquisitive crime
 To reduce serious acquisitive crime compared to the baseline of 2013/2014. To
do this by achieving an overall reduction in dwelling burglary, to reduce robbery
by 5 percent (4 offences) and vehicle crime by 10 percent (55 offences).
 To reduce theft from person by 10 percent (38 offences) for 2014/2015 compared
to the baseline of 2013/2014.
 To reduce theft of pedal cycles by 5 percent (100 offences) for 2014/2015
compared to the baseline of 2013/2014.
Antisocial behaviour – embedding new ways of working
 To have an improved tenancy support package in place by September allowing
us to set a benchmark for the number of people maintained in tenancy over a
period of time.
 To have 12 events attended and 12 publicity features
 To contribute to the Together For Families target to turn around a specified
number of families in 2014/15.
To continue to track and support County led work on domestic abuse (with local work
around awareness raising and training)
 3 awareness campaigns completed.
 40 frontline staff trained (City Council target)
To continue to track and support County led work on Reducing re-offending
The Partnership will keep a watching brief on road safety issues
Appendix 2
4
See https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/cambridge-community-safety-partnership
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New iQuanta groups for Cambridge City
Old iQuanta groups City
New iQuanta groups City
Cambridge
Cambridge
Avon & Somerset - Bristol
Devon & Cornwall - Exeter
Devon & Cornwall - Exeter
Dorset - Bournemouth
Dorset - Bournemouth
Gloucestershire - Cheltenham
Gloucestershire - Cheltenham
Hertfordshire - Hertsmere
Hampshire - Southampton
Hertfordshire - Watford
Hertfordshire - Welwyn & Hatfield
Metropolitan Police - Hillingdon
Kent - Canterbury
Metropolitan Police - Kingston upon Thames
Metropolitan Police - Hillingdon
Metropolitan Police - Richmond upon Thames
Metropolitan Police - Hounslow
North Yorkshire - York
North Yorkshire - York
Surrey - Runnymede
Surrey - Runnymede
Sussex - Brighton & Hove
Sussex - Eastbourne
Sussex - Worthing
Thames Valley - Oxford
Thames Valley - Oxford
Thames Valley - Reading
Thames Valley - Reading
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
Priority Area Progress Report: Q3 2014/15
Priority Area:
Alcohol Related Violent Crime Cambridge City
Lead Officer:
Detective Chief Inspector 0772 Lorraine Parker
Key Achievements during this Quarter1

Police data showed a significant increase, Accident and Emergency and Ambulance
service data showed their figures were stable. Analysis of the reported increase in Police
recording of violent crime was commissioned so that the characteristics of victims,
offenders and locations were identified to ensure the actions taken to tackle the problem
were fit for purpose. The analysis identified two areas in particular required greater focus
the Market and Abbey Wards.

Market Ward and Operation Connect: A Multi Agency response to violence in the night time
economy. A Police led multi agency operation running every Friday, Saturday and other
high harm dates supported by Cambac, Cambridge University, venues in the Community
such as McDonalds, the Street Pastors, Special Constabulary and many more. Briefings
are held at venues within the Market Ward traditionally linked to hotspots of violence. The
briefings and subsequent action focus on themes each weekend such as personal safety,
drugs warnings mobile phone theft. Licensing checks, enforcement of SIA accreditation,
taxi marshalling, use of banning and dispersal powers and enforcement have been used as
necessary.

Safe Refuge and the Festive Care facility: The Safe Refuge facility in St Columbus Church
continues to have an increase of visitors week on week. They hosted the Festive Care
facility during the 2014/15 Christmas and New Year period. Organisations involved in this
year’s project were 254 Medical Regiment, East of England Ambulance Service Trust, St
John Ambulance, Street Pastors and Cambridgeshire Police. Twenty two people visited for
medical treatment and more than ninety three at the Safe Refuge where they were provided
with hot drinks, a shelter to keep warm and assistance in ensuring a safe route home,
reuniting with friends and arranging transport/collection from the facility. The medical
treatment received was for a variety of problems including intoxication, head injuries, facial
injuries and cuts. Just four people needed transportation to A&E following initial treatment.
In addition a number of people were also treated by Care Facility staff on the streets.
Fifteen of those treated at the facility were from outside of Cambridge City.

Abbey Ward: A stakeholder event is being held on 5th February including local councillors,
Inclusion services, Police, City Council, Community Safety Officer and Housing. Following
that briefing the group will plan action specific to the problem profile for the area. It is
intended for Community members to contribute to identifying and solving the issues.
Areas of Concern for Partnership to Note2 - None
Recommendations to Partnership to Address Concerns3 - None
Any Items for Publicity4 - None
1
Please ensure that you only highlight those notable achievements recorded against your Task Group’s Action
Plan.
2
Please ensure that you only highlight those concerns that your Task Group considers should be drawn to the
attention of the Partnership.
3
Please ensure that, in connection with the above Areas of Concern, your Task Group sets out its
Recommendations to the Partnership to address these Concerns, so that agreement can be made (where
appropriate).
4
Please ensure that any items included here for Publicity are not protectively marked.
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Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
Priority Area Progress Report: Q3 2014/15
Priority Area:
Responding to emerging patterns of acquisitive crime
Lead Officer:
Detective Chief Inspector 0772 Lorraine Parker
Key Achievements during this Quarter1

This issue is being tackled through assessing the threat/risk/harm to the individuals
affected.

Operation Shield is a regional Police led Operation increasing knowledge about London
Drug gangs moving into the Counties. Those suppliers have traditionally occupied
(Cuckooed) the homes of vulnerable people often with substance misuse problems. It is
well known those individuals are highly likely to be involved in acquisitive crime. The more
chaotic their situation the more likely they are to offend. Locally a joint Police and Housing
initiative is taking place to make Cambridge a hostile environment for the London Drugs
Gangs in an effort to stabilise local people likely to be offending in this way. Those
premises at risk of being cuckooed have been identified and are being visited by local
Police Officers. A notice is served to each occupier explaining the purpose of the visit and
the intention to re-visit regularly and disrupt and or enforce as part of an organised and
sustained plan. Referral pathways are identified for the vulnerable people and they are
encouraged to share the approach with anyone attempting to cuckoo their homes,
essentially putting the London Gangs on notice that if they do occupy that premises they
are likely to attract Police attention. Police have received reports that one London drugs
gang has disappeared from the City.

Dwelling burglary is being tackled through targeting of known burglars identified through
intelligence leading to convictions. More recently eight different individuals have been
arrested relating to an increased number of house burglaries. Local law enforcers have
been applying a mixture of patrol plans where a series has been identified and information
sharing with partner agencies through the Integrated Offender Management scheme. For
those likely to fall into criminality but they do not qualify for the scheme tasks are allocated
to a local team to visit, individuals are signposted to diversion services (health, housing,
drugs and alcohol, employment.) It has led to greater understanding of individual’s
lifestyles, improved ability to assess the risk of offending and to enforce as appropriate
where diversion is not successful. The burglary cocooning initiative continues, feedback
suggests the community are reassured by house visits in areas following burglaries, it
identifies intelligence that otherwise might not have been reported, residents are making
links with local officers and are more alert to the risk of them or neighbours being subject to
burglary. Media coverage and Neighbourhood Watch play a significant role in making
householders more alert and aware of prevention opportunities.

Prevention work is targeted at likely victim groups, particularly in the case of cycle theft
where the Community Safety officer has delivered over one hundred engagements with
educational establishments and through social media encouraging owners to take note of
the simple measures they can take to prevent being victimised.
Areas of Concern for Partnership to Note2 - None
Recommendations to Partnership to Address Concerns3 - None
Any Items for Publicity4 - None
1
Please ensure that you only highlight those notable achievements recorded against your Task Group’s Action
Plan.
2
Please ensure that you only highlight those concerns that your Task Group considers should be drawn to the
attention of the Partnership.
3
Please ensure that, in connection with the above Areas of Concern, your Task Group sets out its
Recommendations to the Partnership to address these Concerns, so that agreement can be made (where
appropriate).
4
Please ensure that any items included here for Publicity are nrotectively marked.
Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
Priority Progress Report: Q3 2014/15
Priority:
Antisocial behaviour – embedding new ways of working
Lead Officer:
Lynda Kilkelly
Key Achievements1

Casework: During this quarter, City Council ASB and housing officers opened 27 new cases,
requiring investigation and further work, and dealt with 62 low level reports of ASB. Five Notices of
Seeking Possession (NOSPs) were served and one good neighbour agreement was agreed and
signed. Three young people in the East Chesterton area signed up to Acceptable Behaviour
Contracts. Five referrals were made to new City Council’s Tenancy Sustainment Service.

Incidents: Police dealt with 1049 ASB-related incidents. This represents an overall reduction of
16.1% or 202 fewer incidents by comparison to the previous quarter (1251). Of note is that this
reduction is represented across all three ASB themes: Personal (-21.9% or 75 fewer incidents);
Nuisance (-13.4% or 98 fewer incidents); and Environmental (-16.3% or 29 fewer incidents). By
comparison to Q3 in 2013, there has been a slight increase of 2.8% or 29 more ASB incidents. In 37
of the incidents the victims were deemed to be vulnerable.

Residents’ meetings: City Council ASB officers responded to ASB concerns from the residents of
Mill Park on the new station development area. Safer Communities have now taken this on as a
case. Another successful ASB meeting for residents in the King’s Hedges ward was held.

Community engagement: City Council ASB officers attended a meeting of new Anglia Ruskin
University (ARU) students to raise awareness of ASB and also attended a community liaison
meeting to bring together the community and ARU students.

Schools: Cambridge City Safety Zone delivered an interactive workshop for children in Year 5 from
all schools in the north of the City at Parkside Fire Station it included ASB awareness workshops
delivered by City Council ASB Officers. Two separate workshops were held with Year 5 and 6
students at St. Luke’s School.

Neighbourhood Resolution Panel: In October, the co-ordinator made presentations to the Strategy &
Resources Scrutiny Committee and to the CSP, both of which were well received. Discussions with
the Office of the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) about restorative justice
provision in Cambridgeshire have been positive and are ongoing. In December, the co-ordinator
met with City Homes South to raise awareness of the scheme and to invite referrals. The scheme
received two further referrals from the police and Safer Communities to the end of December and
work continues in relation to live referrals with a view to helping parties achieve positive outcomes.
Areas of Concern2

None.
Recommendations3

None.
Publicity4

1
None.
Include here any notable Achievements during the quarter from your Task Group’s Action Plan.
Include here any Concerns that your Task Group considers should be drawn to the attention of the Board.
Include here any Recommendations that your Task Group has to address these Concerns.
4
Include here any notable Publicity that your Task Group undertook this quarter.
2
3
Quarterly update to Cambridge City Community Safety Partnership from
Cambridgeshire Safer Communities Partnerships Team
Oct – Dec 2014, Quarter 3
Please Note: The Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVA) team (aside
from specialists) has been working Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference
(MARAC) cases only during the summer pending a service review on capacity.
1.0
Domestic Abuse Statistics Q3
1.1
The 2014/15 countywide target for ‘% engaged with the IDVA Service’ has
been established at 72%, with the Q3 Cambridge City engagement rate
being above target at 86%.
Table 1 – Engaged clients by district and targets
Local measure
Annual
Q1 Actual
Target
% of engaged clients >72%
86%
Cambridge City
% of repeat instances N/A
24%
Cambridge City
% of engaged clients >72%
77%
East Cambs
% of repeat instances N/A
30%
East Cambs
% of engaged clients >72%
87%
Fenland
% of repeat instances N/A
31%
Fenland
% of engaged clients >72%
86%
Hunts
% of repeat instances N/A
25%
Hunts
% of engaged clients >72%
83%
South Cambs
% of repeat instances N/A
30%
South Cambs
1
On
target?

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A
1.2.1 Table 2 below shows the % of engaged and repeats for the specialist
IDVA services
Table 2 – Specialist IDVA data Q3 2014-15
Specialist IDVA
Addenbrooke’s
Hinchingbrooke
Young Persons’ IDVA
A8 IDVA
1.3
% engaged
clients
73% (22 refs)
88% (8 refs)
80% (20 refs)
57% (21 refs)
% of repeat
instances
6%
0%
13%
0%
Table 3 shows the total of referrals per district for each quarter, with a
running total by district and of all referrals.
Table 3 – number of referrals by district
Local measure
Q1*
Q2*
(volume of referrals)
2014/15
Cambridge City
72
48
East Cambs
20
26
Fenland
53
47
Hunts
53
45
South Cambs
37
31
Q3*
Q4*
29
13
30
28
24
Total (including
312
228
195
specialist IDVAs)*
*these figures may change as the year progresses due to validation
1.4
For the county as a whole, the total number of clients who engaged with
the IDVA service in Q3 was 156 with an overall engagement rate of 80%.
There were also a total of 32 repeat referrals for the county and of these,
75% were what we refer to as “positive repeats” and therefore all had a
safety plan in place. In total, 92% had a safety plan in place.
2
2.0
Domestic Abuse Statistics – annual comparison
2.1
Table below shows the data for 2013-14 to enable comparison.
Table 4 – number of referrals 2013-14
Local measure
(volume of
referrals)
Cambridge City
East Cambs
Fenland
Hunts
South Cambs
TOTAL
Q1
Q2
2013-14
Q3
Q4
44
15
53
63
27
202
59
20
49
61
36
225
56
17
42
59
32
206
59
18
53
74
35
239
TOTAL
218
70
197
257
130
872
2.2
For the county as a whole, the total number of clients who engaged with
the IDVA service in 2013-14 was 1241 with an overall engagement rate of
72%. The total number of repeat referrals for 2013-14 was 401.
3.0
Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership update
3.1
The free Domestic Violence training has now reverted to 2 days. The next
available dates in Cambridge City /South Cambs are 4th and 5th of
February.
Please contact Stevie Varrall for more information
Stevie.varrall@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
3.2
CAADA DASH Threshold increase
The referral threshold to IDVAS from police has increased from a score of
10 or over to a score of 14 or over on the CAADA DASH Risk Assessment
Checklist as of 1st April 2014.
3.3
MARAC Threshold Increase
From 1st June 2014, the criteria for a case going to MARAC was changed
from a score of 17 on the CAADA DASH to 14. The impact of this change
is being monitored and outcomes will be reported to the Domestic Abuse
Governance Board on 26th January. Community Safety Partnerships are
represented on the Governance Board by Liz Bisset.
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4.0
Drug and Alcohol Performance Data
Update for Community Safety Partnerships from Cambridgeshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team
January 2015 Report
Performance Data
YP
Engaged in
YP
treatment
services
YTD
39
15
Adults
engaged in
adult
treatment
services YTD
615
169
Clients that
accessed
residential
rehabs
5**
0
Clients
placed in
an inpatient
detox unit
11
3
Alcohol
Drug
Q1 2013/14
Treatment Treatment
Cambridge
144
471
East Cambridgeshire
36
133
South
Cambridgeshire
18
86
2
84
0
0
Huntingdon
30
394
110
284
7
2
Fenland
30
383
90
293
0
4
Cambridgeshire
132
1647
382
1265
12
20
*Please note that we can only provide data for 2013/14 as 2014/15 is not currently in the public domain.
**Numbers under 5 are suppressed.
YP
Engaged in
Adults
YP
engaged in
Clients that
Clients
treatment
adult
accessed
placed in
services
treatment
Alcohol
Drug
residential
an inpatient
Q1 2012/13
YTD
services YTD
Treatment Treatment
rehabs
detox unit
Cambridge
19
627
139
488
0
19
East Cambridgeshire
10
126
16
110
5**
0
South
Cambridgeshire
14
64
5
59
5**
0
Huntingdon
44
372
101
271
5**
0
Fenland
22
356
68
288
5**
0
Cambridgeshire
109
1545
329
1216
20
19
**Numbers under 5 are suppressed.
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TOTAL
670
187
Total
population
by district
(based on
2011
census)
123,867
83,818
% of clients
in treatment
by
population
0.54
0.22
104
433
417
1811
148,755
169,508
95,262
621,210
0.07
0.26
0.44
1.53
TOTAL
665
141
Total
population
by district
(based on
2011
census)
123,867
83,818
% of clients
in treatment
by
population
0.54
0.17
83
421
383
1693
148,755
169,508
95,262
621,210
0.06
0.25
0.40
1.41
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5.0
Drug and Alcohol update
5.1
Naloxone Project
The provision of Naloxone is now available across all sites across the
county. In total 100 Prenoxad kits have been supplied to individuals, 12 of
which have been replaced due to being used in an overdose situation.
5.2
Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
As part of our local NPS strategy the partnership has been working hard to
identify NPS in our local communities, rolling out NPS training for
professionals and developing our own harm reduction material. Research
conducted over the summer months has given us a unique insight into
NPS use across Cambridgeshire and helped us develop appropriate
responses. During December 2014, with the help of SUN Network, the
DAAT 'tweeted' safer party messages. In total these ‘tweets’ were
followed by 442 followers, which is a combination of followers for both
organisations and new followers during the campaign.
5.3
No Bin, no pin Huntingdonshire pilot
Inclusion Drug Treatment Service has introduced an innovative project in
an effort to reduce needle finds and increasing used returns. All individuals
asking for works will be given a needle bin whether they request one or
not. In addition a loyalty card scheme has been introduced (similar to a
coffee shop) a stamp for bins returned, 5 stamps and you get entered into
a draw to win a £10 voucher. Returns have significantly increased since
the scheme was introduced. The service is looking to roll this out across
the county.
5.4
SUN Network, Independent Service User Group
On Wednesday 8th October 2014 The SUN Network delivered the first
ever Human Library in Cambridgeshire. Hosted very kindly by Anglia
Ruskin University, the library saw a selection of Human ‘Books’ come
together with members of the public as ‘Readers’ in a bid to challenge
stigma and erase prejudice. Through the medium of conversations, on
average lasting between 20 and 30 minutes, ‘Readers’ were able to ask
any respectful question to their ‘Book’, on a subject of which they have
lived experience.
The day was an outstanding success, with ‘Readers’ comprised of both
members of the public and professional representatives of organisations
such as the CCG and DAAT.
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The SUN Network holds the Stages Recovery Café in Wisbech,
Cambridge and Ely. Everyone is welcome to attend for free refreshments,
support, and information on recovery.
5.5
Feedback on Alcohol Awareness Month
Thank you to all of you who participated in Alcohol Awareness Activities
during the month of November. This year the DAAT, Inclusion, CASUS
and others went on an awareness raising drive all month with a host of
activities. The theme was, the morning after campaign (highlighting the
risk of drink driving the morning after a drinking session) and highlighting
how for those who like sport how drinking the night before physical
exercise can impact on performance.
The DAAT sent out awareness information and posters to 32 local
authority/trust gyms and 26 private gyms/leisure centres. Cambridgeshire
Police distributed 1000 morning after leaflets to the public and around
5000 alcohol scratch cards were given out over the month by the DAAT
and partners. There was also a range of other public events/outreach and
displays at locations and venues spread across the county. Inclusion and
CASUS put on events all month which helped to highlight harms and
promote recovery by helping people who have misused alcohol to get
involved in baking, knitting, art, discussions, drop in chats, reading, guitar
playing and much, much, more. Following the excess of Xmas we are now
encouraging people to have a Dry January. This is to help people save
money, lose weight and feel energised. Find out more on the link below.
http://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/what-we-do/campaigns/dry-january/
5.6
Pharmacy Campaign
During February the Safer Communities Partnership Team (SCPT) is
running its annual Alcohol Awareness Campaign with Pharmacies across
Cambridgeshire. This year the SCPT is working with the national charity
DRINKAWARE to bring to Cambridgeshire the ‘What’s in your Drink
Campaign’. The campaign is based around offering out free harm
reduction packs to people who may be drinking above government
guidelines or who are curious to question their own or someone else’s
drinking. Each kit contains the following:



A half pint sized alcohol unit measuring cup
A calculator wheel which provides unit and calorie content in most
popular drinks
An information leaflet with tips and advice including signposting to
Drinkawares App and on line self assessment (AUDIT)
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
An online user survey with attractive prize incentives.
This campaign material has been used successfully in a Pharmacy
Campaign in Berkshire with impressive results:




86% of respondents found the kits made them more aware of the
effects of alcohol on their health and wellbeing
75% of respondents felt the kit made them more aware of their
drinking habits
79% of respondent said they had started keeping better track of
their drinking after using the kit
Other benefits included reducing the number of unit’s drunk,
drinking lower strength products and drinking on fewer days of the
week.
Following the delivery of the campaign in Cambridgeshire the campaign
will be evaluated both from the perspective of users and pharmacy staff
and further updates will be provided to CSPs.
6.0
Criminal Justice update
Parkside Police Custody will be temporarily closed for a minimum of 3
weeks from January 19th and START will be working with the police to
ensure the custody drug and alcohol referral process is effectively
supported during this period, particularly in Huntingdon where the majority
of Cambridge detainees will be dealt with.
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To:
From:
Date:
Cambridge Community Safety Partnership Board
Louise Walker
10 February 2015
Subject: Cambridge CSP Terms of Reference: Revisions
1.
Purpose of the report
1.1
To advise the Board of revisions made to the Cambridge Community Safety Partnership
(CSP) Terms of Reference.
1.2
To obtain the Board’s approval for the revisions made in this report or consider
amendments.
1.3
To discuss the continuing role of the Officer Support Group.
2.
Background
2.1
The Cambridge CSP’s Terms of Reference were last revised in April 2012. The document
sets out the aims and expectations of the Partnership and its members, including the
Officer Support Group and the Partnership Support Officer.
2.2
The revised document (attached) takes into account the changes to the priorities and aims
that came into effect as from 1 April 2014 with the revised Community Safety Plan 2014-17.
2.3
The Officer Support Group has not been well attended for some time now and the Board
may want to consider if a different approach is needed to deliver the responsibilities as laid
out in Section 8 of the TOR.
3.
Recommendation
3.1
That the Board approves the revised Terms of Reference attached or amends the TOR to
reflect the changing nature of the partnership working, including the role of the Officer
Support Group.
Further Information:
Louise Walker
Partnership Support Officer
01223 457808
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CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP
TERMS OF REFERENCE
1. Foreword
a) The following values and strategic drivers are key to the Cambridge Community
Safety Partnership (“Cambridge CSP”):

We will be responsible for an overarching strategic framework1 for reducing
crime and improving community safety in Cambridge;

We will ensure that all partner agencies2 work together and ensure the work of
each agency is “joined up” and that our performance is effectively managed;

We will ensure that our work is linked to national and county priorities and
research, including the Police Reform & Social Responsibility Act 2011, the
Localism Act 2011 and Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014,
where this best serves the people of Cambridge;

We will take an intelligence-led process to our business and ensure problem
solving3 is a tool used to address issues;

We will engage4 with the community as a whole, encouraging people to
become involved with reporting and tackling crime and disorder in Cambridge;

We will also engage with other partnerships on issues that relate to
Cambridge both at the area and citywide level;
1
Senior managers will be responsible for ensuring their organisations and agencies deliver against
this framework.
2
Anglia Ruskin University, BeNCH CRC Ltd, British Transport Police, Cambridge Business Against
Crime, Cambridge City Council, Cambridge Council for Voluntary Services, Cambridge University
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust,
Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Cambridgeshire County Council, Cambridgeshire Drug And
Alcohol Action Team, Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Clinical Commissioning Group, Office of the Cambridgeshire Police & Crime Commissioner and
University of Cambridge. Those shown in bold are the statutory agencies.
3
Problem solving is a means of harnessing all agencies and the community (including the two
Cambridge Universities) itself to reduce crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour by identifying the
root cause of problems, finding a sustainable solution that removes the cause and thus ultimately
reducing the demands made on the Cambridge CSP.
4
Policing and Safer Neighbourhoods is the driving force for the Cambridge CSP’s engagement work.
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
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We will allocate funding using transparent procedures and based on available
evidence; and

We will work to ensure that our human and financial resources are used as
effectively as possible, by monitoring and evaluating our work.
b) The following are the priorities and aims of the Cambridge CSP for 2015-16:
Reducing alcohol-related violence

Maintain the good practice of the Alcohol-Related Violent Crime (ARVC) Task
Group in tackling violent crime that is directly linked to alcohol consumption;

Create a safe and secure environment for those who live in, work in and visit
the city centre, particularly at times when key events will be taking place.

Continue to look at information from partners and other sources so that we
can identify emerging issues of alcohol-related violent crime, including looking
beyond the central area; and

Take opportunities that arise to work with partners such as the Clinical
Commissioning Group and treatment agencies to help prevent individuals and
groups from becoming repeat offenders or victims of alcohol-related violent
crime.
Personal acquisitive crime – identifying and responding to trends
Identify emerging trends in relations to victim based crime at the earliest stage
and use all appropriate partnership resources and assets to swiftly mitigate the
ongoing risk to the victim of such crime.
Reducing anti-social behaviour
Continue to effectively tackle incidents of anti-social behaviour and create an
environment where everyone who lives in, works in, or visits Cambridge is free
from feeling harassed or intimidated by the behaviour of others.
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Track and support County-led work on domestic abuse with local work
around awareness raising and training.
Continue to work with Cambridgeshire Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence
Partnership supporting them to bridge the gaps and inequalities in service as
identified in the Needs Assessment and deliver within the local community a
programme of awareness raising and frontline staff training.
Reducing re-offending
To successfully implement the Integrated Offender Management (IOM) scheme in
Cambridge.
2. Agencies represented on the Cambridge CSP are responsible for:
a) Appointing a representative (“member”) to attend meetings and events hosted by
the Cambridge CSP, and to act as the contact point between other agencies;
b) Ensuring that their member is well briefed on their roles and responsibilities and
has received a proper handover briefing when there has been a change of
membership; and
c) Contributing to multi-agency problem solving on the crime and disorder issues
identified within the Community Safety Plan 2014-17 (“CS Plan”), ensuring that
relevant members contribute to any working groups set up by the Cambridge
CSP.
3. Members5 are responsible for:
a) Contributing to the work and development of the Cambridge CSP;
b) Ensuring their respective agency is effectively considering community safety in
the way it delivers its services;
c) Identifying the resources their agency can bring to bear on the problems identified
by the Cambridge CSP;
d) Attending all Cambridge CSP meetings, ensuring that all relevant agenda papers
are read and understood;
5
Some members will be Board members – see “Voting”.
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e) Ensuring that any reports for discussion by the Cambridge CSP are forwarded to
the Partnership Support Officer by whatever deadline is set, advising of any that
are confidential and require appropriate handling;
f) Feeding back from Cambridge CSP meetings to their respective agency, ensuring
all relevant people are aware of its work and the Plan;
g) Advising the Cambridge CSP of any community safety issues arising from their
respective agencies; and
h) Ensuring that their respective agency complies with the Information Sharing
Agreement.
4. The Cambridge CSP is responsible for:
a) Commissioning the Research & Performance Team to undertake an annual
Strategic Assessment;
b) Agreeing the annual refresh of the CS Plan, using the Strategic Assessment as a
basis for decision-making;
c) Setting objectives and targets within the CS Plan that are SMART6 and based on
a problem-solving approach;
d) Commissioning and financing projects to tackle problems identified by the
Strategic Assessment;
e) Allocating grant funding, awarded to the Cambridge CSP, in line with the
conditions of grant, in order to further the objectives of the CS Plan;
f) Monitoring achievement against the objectives and targets identified in each Task
Group’s Action Plan and challenging lack of progress, where appropriate7;
g) Evaluating the success of Cambridge CSP initiatives and disseminating the
lessons learnt; and
h) Working with the Cambridge Local Strategic Partnership to ensure that the
Community Strategy and CS Plan are complementary to each other.
6
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-based
7
See role of the “Vice Chair”
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5. The Chair is responsible for:
a) Chairing meetings of the Cambridge CSP, ensuring that it gets through the
business on the agenda and takes clear decisions on recommendations made by
majority vote;
b) Ensuring that, prior to conducting the business of each meeting, the general
public (where present) are reminded of the “Information for the general public and
media representatives” printed on the back of the Agenda;
c) Representing8 the Cambridge CSP at other meetings and acting as the “public
face” of the Cambridge CSP when dealing with the media.
6. The Vice Chair is responsible for:
a) Chairing meetings of the Cambridge CSP in the absence of the Chair;
b) Representing the Chair at other meetings and acting as the public face of the
Cambridge CSP when dealing with the media, where appropriate and advised;
c) Conducting preparatory work, with the Research & Performance Team, to
contextualise current Cambridge CSP performance;
d) Acting as a “Champion” for the Strategic Assessment process to ensure that
information required to build a profile of the community and its needs is available
to the Research & Performance Team;
e) Taking ownership of the performance management process and reviewing this at
Cambridge CSP meetings; and
f) Working to improve business processes that support delivery against the agreed
priorities.
7. Voting
a) The Chair will, where a report seeks Board approval of a recommendation, call for
a show of hands of those Board members present, taking into account any votes
notified to the Partnership Support Officer from those Board members not present
and not represented9; and
8
The Chair may delegate to the Vice Chair or an appropriate member where potential conflicts of
interest or dual roles may occur.
9
For the purposes of voting, representatives attending meetings on behalf of absent Board members
will be deemed as Board members
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b) Each representative agency is entitled to one vote only. Should there be more
than one Board member present from the same agency, the Chair will request
they agree before voting whose vote will count.
8. The Officer Support Group is responsible for:
a) Providing professional advice, support and recommendations to the Cambridge
CSP to enable it to fulfil the responsibilities outlined above;
b) Managing the agenda for Cambridge CSP meetings (in consultation with the
Chair) to ensure that work is sensibly programmed throughout the year and that
Board members have the briefings they need to make informed decisions;
c) Managing the bidding and commissioning process for any grant funding streams
available to the Cambridge CSP, making recommendations to Board members on
the projects to be funded in line with the conditions of grant and the objectives set
out in the CS Plan;
d) Drafting the annual refresh of the CS Plan and providing advice on relevant
SMART objectives and targets;
e) Providing advice and support to any working groups set up by the Cambridge
CSP.
9. The Partnership Support Officer is responsible for (in addition to the usual
secretariat duties):
a) Ensuring Cambridge CSP meetings are advertised on the City Council’s website
in good time and that the agenda and reports are posted within five working days
of each meeting;
b) Ensuring that the Chair is notified of any questions to be raised prior to each
meeting;
c) Ensuring agreed actions are taken forward between meetings;
d) Writing an Annual Review on the work of the Cambridge CSP and making sure
that information about the Cambridge CSP is publicised via the web and other
appropriate mechanisms;
e) Providing induction support and materials for new members; and
f) Monitoring the performance of working groups to enable the Vice Chair to have
up to date information to either inform assessment of their achievements or to
provide evidence to challenge failings, where appropriate.
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