About the Safer Neighbourhoods Partnership

Safer Neighbourhoods is the CDRP for North Lincolnshire. CDRPs are partnerships between the emergency services, local authorities, and public, private and voluntary sector agencies that work together to reduce crime, disorder and substance misuse. They were formed as a result of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and there are over 370 such partnerships across England and Wales.

The Safer Neighbourhoods Partnership was formerly known as the Community Safety Partnership. In April 2004, the partnership amalgamated with the North Lincolnshire Drug Action Team and assumed the additional responsibility for substance misuse (including drug and alcohol misuse). The new partnership is named the Safer Neighbourhoods Partnership in recognition of it's role as the Safer Neighbourhoods Action Group of the North Lincolnshire Local Strategic Partnership (LSP).

What we Do

On behalf of the LSP, Safer Neighbourhoods is responsible for the delivery of the Safer and Stronger Communities element of the area’s Sustainable Community Strategy. The partnership’s performance is measured against a series of targets agreed with central government and detailed in a number of documents, including the Local Area Agreement (LAA).

In practical terms, we:

• Collate information from the Police, Local Authority, Health Service and a broad range of other sources about crime, disorder and substance misuse in North Lincolnshire.
• Conduct surveys of local residents.
• Analyse the information we collect to make sure that the Partnership’s perception of crime reflects public views as well as recorded statistics. Much of this process is undertaken using a system known as the ‘National Intelligence Model’.
• Devise and implement a rolling three year plan that contains measures to tackle those priority issues identified.

How we Work

We work together at a number of different levels to improve community safety in North Lincolnshire. From an executive boardroom to a resident’s living room, Safer Neighbourhoods activity takes many forms. For example we:

• Meet together at strategic levels to look at changing trends in crime and drug use.
• Share information and ideas about crime and drugs.
• Try to improve the way in which existing services are delivered.
• Commission drug treatment services and crime reduction measures.
• Work together with residents and voluntary groups on specific neighbourhood problems.

How we are Organised

The Partnership is led by the Safer Neighbourhoods Strategy Board.

Multi-agency Task Groups are formed to lead the Partnership’s activities on priority themes and these are assisted by numerous Project Teams that work on specific issues or in particular locations.

Much of our work centres around working with local people to address community safety problems within our neighbourhoods. We do this by bringing together Neighbourhood Action Teams (NATs) at neighbourhood level and support these with Safer Neighbourhoods Area Teams (SNATs) at area level. There are 17 NATs and 5 SNATs in North Lincolnshire.

There are numerous other organisations in the wider Partnership and these make up the Safer Neighbourhoods Forum from which our teams are formed.

A simplified version of the Partnership structure is shown in the diagram below:

How our Work is Funded

Funding for Safer Neighbourhoods activity comes from a number of sources including the National Treatment Agency, the Government’s Safer and Stronger Communities Fund, partner members and the many organisations and individuals who commit staff, volunteer time or other resources to our activities.

The Safer Neighbourhoods Hub

The Safer Neighbourhoods Hub is based at Shelford House, Shelford Street Scunthorpe (opposite the main Scunthorpe Police Station). We are a small multi-agency team whose role is to help guide, facilitate and support Safer Neighbourhoods activity across the crime, disorder and substance misuse agendas.