Roles and Responsibilities

 The Strategic Group

The statutory making body is the Strategic Group, which requires all agencies required by the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to attend. The Strategic Partners are the Police, Police Authority, Local Authority, Fire and Rescue Service and Primary Care Trusts.

Each of the five Responsible Authorities must be represented on the group.

This group is ultimately responsible for preparing and implementing the Strategic Assessment and Partnership Plan.

The Strategic Group sets the tone and direction of the partnership in addition to being the final decision making arena for the partnership.

Performance Management Group

The group will identify baseline data and set targets or indicators that can be used to measure performance and demonstrate effective service delivery. These decisions will need to take into account the National Indicators and Local Area Agreement structures.

This group is responsible for the delivery of the Strategic Assessment  and Partnership Plan and monitoring the targets every quarter. It will also be responsible for evaluating the resources available and making recommendations upon commissioning of projects.

The performance management group acts as a Reviewing, planning and co-ordinating group for service delivery.

The membership of the group includes the chairs of each of the Thematic delivery groups, and representatives of statutory partners and other influential partners including voluntary services, DAAT, probation and other partners that are not represented by other means.

The group will review operational performance across the partnership plan as a whole. The chair will require the chair of each of the thematic delivery groups to account for service delivery in their thematic area of delivery at each meeting.

Every six months the group will consider the strategic delivery against the partnership plan refreshing and reviewing  targets and objectives if necessary.

Thematic Delivery Groups

The chair of each Thematic Delivery Group is a member of, and accountable to, the Performance Management Group for their theme area.

The chair of each group is responsible for assembling a team of partner agency representatives to undertake responsibility for taking and performance managing actions in relation to the thematic objectives and targets.

The chair should ensure that the provision of service does not duplicate work that is already in existence. Where a relevant service provider is in operation the chair should generate links with them to avoid duplication and maximise  use of resources.

Each meeting of a delivery group will address the operational issues for the partnership in that specific area of responsibility. In doing so it will consider four types of intervention.

1. Targeting priority issues in line with the priorities of the Strategic Assessment.
2. Focussing on specific geographical hotspots that have been identified.
3. The investigation and further researching of emerging trends.
4. The application of the range of preventative measures.

Group members will be responsible for producing Action Plans setting out what will be done to achieve each objective. The process will include identifying a lead person for each action who will be accountable for delivering the intervention specified.

Community Engagement – Neighbourhood Panels

Neighbourhood Panels are the community engagement arm of the partnership tackling local issues at a local level and escalating issues up to the Thematics  if required.

They will continue to be responsible for holding meetings with local residents and forming problem profiles based on local need and partnership priorities.

Joint action groups will be expected to report to the Performance management group on progress