Agenda item

Agenda item

Community Safety Partnership Spend

Report of the Strategic Director (Neighbourhoods)

 

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the Community Safety Partnership spend. This will include details of the members, strategic priorities, and funding sources. The report will also provide details of how the partnership allocates funding and the approved spending plans for 2021/22, and some of the activity and outcomes of previously funded projects.

 

Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Strategic Director (Neighbourhoods), that provided an overview of the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) spend.

 

This will include details of the members, strategic priorities, and funding sources. The report will also provide details of how the partnership allocates funding and the approved spending plans for 2021/22, and some of the activity and outcomes of previously funded projects.

 

Key points and themes in the report included:

 

           Details of the members of the CSP, strategic priorities, and funding sources;

           How the partnership allocated funding and the approved spending plans for 2021/22; and

           Activity and outcomes of previously funded projects.

 

Some of the key points that arose from the Committee’s discussions were:

 

           What was the totality of the money available for community safety, who decided how it was allocated, what criteria was used in determining allocation and what monitoring of spend was taking place, with specific reference to youth funding;

           What lobbying was being done to change the current budgetary process from an annual allocation and was there anything the Committee do to support this;

           Was the provision of CCTV included within the budget for Community Safety;

           Further clarity of how the funding was allocated was needed;

           Funding of £15,000 to tackle hate crime appeared to be low

 

The Community Safety Lead advised that the Community Safety Partnership received an annual payment from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and for 2021/22 this equated to £1.13m made up of four, one-year funding grants, which could not be used to provide mainstream services within any of the agencies, including police overtime.  The CSP strategy had a number of key priorities and each priority was overseen by theme leads who were responsible for developing the Partnership’s response with regards to their priority.  At the start of each financial year, the CSP Board would agree a funding plan that identified spending on each priority.           

 

The Community Safety Lead acknowledged that a more detailed breakdown of what the allocated spend covered would have been helpful and to assure Members, gave an example in relation to the spend in protecting people from serious harm would include spend around tackling moderns slavery, family support for individuals subject to  exploitation, domestic violence and abuse spend, spend on community engagement on Prevent and raising community awareness.  The CSP Board was reliant on a number of processes to ensure the commissioning of work was appropriate and relied on partners in different services including the voluntary and community sector in utilising their commissioning processes as the team did not have the resources to undertake these processes themselves.

 

The Community Safety Lead advised that the Council had raised the challenge for annual funding with the GMCA and how that impact don the ability to plan in advance.  She also advised that the provision of CCT was not included in the funding for Community Safety.  In addition the Community Safety Lead reported that the Council topped up the funding to tackle hate crime, adding a further £30,000 to the overall budget.

 

Decision

 

The Committee notes the report.

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