Context in which we operate

Policy context

The charity contributes to the Public Service Agreements (PSAs) for improving community safety as follows:

  1. PSA 23 Priority Action 1 - Reduce the most serious violence, including tackling domestic violence and hate crime.  Two women each week are murdered as a result of domestic violence.  The majority of the schemes we are operating and those we tender for involve improving the security and safety of victims of these crimes.
  2. PSA 23 Priority Action 2 - Reduce serious acquisitive crime, including burglary and robbery.  Again, most of the schemes we are operating and those we tender for involve improving the security of the homes of victims and potential victims of these crimes.
  3. PSA 23 Priority Action 3 - Increasing public confidence.  Securing people's homes builds confidence and reduces the fear of crime.
  4. PSA 23 Priority Action 4 - Reducing reoffending.  Whilst this is mostly about drugs and Prolific and Other Priority Offenders, the charity plays a part in helping improve the security of temporary accommodation.
  5. PSA 21 - More cohesive, empowered and active communities.  As far as the work of Safe Partnership is concerned, this is about enabling local people to achieve a response from key service providers to a community safety issue that they believe has not been adequately addressed.
  6. Our work also contribites to PSA 13 - Improving children and young people's safety; and PSA 17 - Increasing the number of people over 65 who are satisfied with their home and their neighbourhood. 
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Partnership context

It is the Government’s policy that community safety is a matter for collaboration between central and local government and other key agencies and partners at local level.