NCSN 60 Second Policy Briefings
39 The Policing & Crime Act 2009
There was disappointment that the opportunity to improving police accountability and effectiveness by making local police forces more accountable to their communities had been missed as a result.
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38 Guidance on implementing Crime & Disorder Act: Section 17
This NCSN document has been prepared to remind individual practitioners and agencies of the binding obligations and duties that exist to prevent crime and disorder.
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37 Violent Offender Orders
VOO’s are a preventative measure to help the Police Service to protect the public from those violent offenders who continue to pose a risk of serious violent harm to the public even after their release from prison.
The orders enable the Police to risk manage these offenders more effectively, by placing controls upon them in cases where the risk is judged to be most significant and the public are in the greatest potential danger.
The Orders are necessary because some violent offenders continue to pose a serious risk after release, when they are no longer subject to statutory restrictions under licence, Hospital Order or a Supervision Order.
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36 Communicating for Confidence: A Practical Guide (Home Office)
In May 2009 the Home Office issued Communicating for Confidence: A practical guide.
The primary aim is to advise CDRP's & CSP's on how to develop a communications strategy to build public confidence in the work being done to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. NCSN have taken this one stage further by circulating a streamlined step by step implementation guide for practitioners. Click here to read the step by step guide and NCSN comment.
Members who seek further information can follow this link to the Home Office website.
http://www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/learningzone/communicatingforconfidence.htm
NCSN is always interested in members' views so please forward any comments on the guide to policy@community-safety.net
35 The Policing Green Paper 2009
Members' are invited to comment on The Criminal Justice Green Paper, “Engaging Communities in Criminal Justice", to enable a collective reply to be made, by the Government’s consultation deadline in July 2009. Click here
34 Neighbourhood Policing Evaluation
The Neighbourhood Policing initiative to revive community policing has failed to cut crime or boost public confidence, according to a Home Office research document released this month entitled 'Findings from the second year of the national Neighbourhood Policing Programme evaluation'. (1)
33 Policing Green Paper
The policing green paper, " From the neighbourhood to the national: policing our communities together" sets out government plans to work with the police in preventing crime and improving public confidence. This briefing summarises its key features.
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32 THE YOUTH CRIME ACTION PLAN
The Youth Crime Action Plan, published in July 2008, aims to reduce the number of 10 - 17 year olds who enter the criminal justice system for the first time by one-fifth by 2020. £100 million will be invested to try to stop young people from getting involved in crime. Click here for the briefing.
31 The Drug Strategy 2008-18
The new ten year drug strategy ‘ Drugs: protecting families and communities’ was published in February 2008. Alongside the strategy sits an action plan with 87 items.
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30 Independent Policing Review and Home Secretary response
The final report of the Independent Policing Review makes 33 recommendations – many relevant to community safety – including that neighbourhood policing be more closely integrated within neighbourhood management approaches.
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29 Youth Taskforce Action Plan
The Youth Taskforce Action Plan was published in March 2008. It sets out the government’ s approach to tackling anti-social behaviour – combining enforcement and compulsory support with a focus on prevention and early intervention.
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28 The Violent Crime Action Plan
The cross-government Violent Crime Action Plan was published in February 2008. It contains two main themes: risk management (of both perpetrators and victims), and the provision of support to victims in order to minimize both the impact of violence and future vulnerability, and also to improve the likelihood of conviction.
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27 The National Community Safety Plan
In December 2007 the Government published a new National Community Safety Plan (NCSP) for 2008-11. This plan revised the 2006-09 plan to align it with the new Crime Strategy and Public Sector Agreements. This briefing summarises the key messages in the National Community Safety Plan, highlighting key implications of the new round Public Service Agreements (2008-11) for CDRPs.
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26 Home Office Guidance for Effective Partnerships
The Home Office Guidance for Effective Partnerships (published September 2007) aims to assist CDRP/CSPs in meeting and excelling the National Minimum Standards - in order to achieve the desired outcomes of (1) Effective Partnerships (2) Safer Communities and (3) Community Confidence. This briefing summarises key points from the Guidance.
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25 The Serious Crime Act 2007
The Serious Crime Act 2007 became law on 30th October 2007. It is designed to support work that disrupts serious crime prevent criminals from benefiting from their actions and ensure that even those connected loosely with serious criminal groups cannot avoid prosecution.
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24 Councillor Call for Action and Future Developments for Local Democracy
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act introduces the Councillor Call for Action, and the decision to drop the Community Call for Action requires that the Police and Justice Act 2006 be amended. This briefing summarises these changes and describes some future developments in relation to local democracy.
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23 Detailed: New Round Public Service Agreements (2008-11)
On October 9th, the Treasury published the new round of Public Sector Agreements (PSAs). These set out the key priority outcomes that the Government wants to achieve in the next spending period (2008-2011).
This briefing summarizes the key features across all 30 PSAs that relate to community safety.
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22 Summary: New Round Public Service Agreements (2008-11)
On October 9th, the Treasury published the new round of Public Sector Agreements (PSAs). These set out the key priority outcomes that the Government wants to achieve in the next spending period (2008-2011).
This briefing summarizes the key features across all 30 PSAs that relate to community safety.
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21 Summary of PSA 23: Making Communities Safer
On October 9th the Treasury published the new round of Public Sector Agreements. These set out the key priority outcomes that the Government wants to achieve in the next spending period (2008-2011).
This briefing summarizes the ‘ Safer Communities’ PSA delivery agreement.
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20 Independent Police Review: interim findings
In April 2007 Sir Ronnie Flanagan was appointed to lead an independent review of the police service. The interim findings of the review were published on the 12th September 2007 and are summarised in this briefing. The main focus of this September report is on reducing bureaucracy and neighbourhood policing.
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19 The Offender Management Act (2007)
The Offender Management Act (2007) seeks to improve the delivery of probation services thereby reducing re-offending and better protecting the public. It enables: the establishment of probation trusts the development of commissioning within probation services and greater partnership working with voluntary, charity and private sector service providers.
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18 Crime Strategy 2008 - 2011
Publication of the Crime Strategy: Cutting Crime – A New Partnership 2008 - 2011.
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17 Commission on Integration & Cohesion Final Report: Our Shared Future
Publication of Our Shared Future by the Commission on Integration & Cohesion.
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16 Safe, Sensible and Social: next steps in the national Alcohol Strategy
Publication of the Government’ s new Alcohol Strategy - Safe, Sensible and Social: next steps in the national Alcohol Strategy, reviewing progress since publication of the Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England 2004, and outlining further national and local action to achieve long-term reductions in alcohol-related ill health and crime (94 pages).
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15 Restorative Justice
An overview of restorative justice.
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14 NCSN Comment:
Potential Costs of the National Standards
The Home Office believes that compliance with the national standards should be a straightforward process for the majority of CDRPs - with minimal costs imposed upon partnerships. In this briefing, NCSN provides its own perspective on this issue.
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13 The CDRP Reform Programme
This summary provides an overview of what is known about the CDRP programme in May 2007. Please note that the information provided on the national crime strategy and the PSAs relates to their current draft form, and although not anticipated to change substantially, may be subject to minor alterations.
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12 A New Home Office and a Ministry of Justice
Enhanced Home Office focus on issues critical to national security and the creation of a Ministry of Justice. Publication of a 10 year tackling crime strategy.
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11 Evaluating ‘ Weeks of Action’
‘ Weeks of Action’ are specific weeks when a whole partnership works together to implement major multi-agency community safety activities. They
commonly focus work on key wards or neighbourhoods, and are often accompanied by high profile publicity campaigns. This briefing provides some straightforward advice on how to evaluate their impact.
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10 Joint Interim Performance Assessments (JIPA)
Introduction of Joint Interim Performance Assessments, which are now available on Iquanta as pre-cursor to APACS (Assessments of Policing and Community Safety).
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9 Comprehensive Performance Assessments (CPA)
Summary Current arrangements for Comprehensive Performance Assessments and the development of the framework for Comprehensive Area Assessments.
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8 Updated National Community Safety Plan
The National Community Safety Plan 2006-2009 (incorporating the National Policing Plan 2006-9 ) was published November 2005. It is the over-arching policy for those working in community safety. This briefing summarises the key elements of the Plan and identifies the changes arising from the first year update (November 2006).
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7 Developing the future arrangements for Local Area Agreements (LAAs)
Future LAAs to have a much smaller set of core priorities and to be able to focus more on what is important locally.
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6 Respect: One Year On
One year on Respect progress update. Announcement of 40 Respect areas.
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5 Police and Justice Act 2006
The Police and Justice Act 2006 drives forward key elements of the Government’ s police reform programme and measures contained in the Respect Action Plan. It is intended to sustain further improvements in police performance at neighbourhood, force, national and international levels.
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4 CDA Review
CDA Review findings to come into effect summer 2007.
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3 Violent Crime Reduction Act
The Violent Crime Reduction Act (2006) is a key part of the government’ s strategy to build safer communities by tackling all forms of violent crime. It sets out a package of measures to provide the police and local communities with powers to tackle violent crime involving guns, knives and alcohol.
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2 PPO Evaluation
Main findings: Benefits of joint working Highlights drugs and accommodation Impact on crime – 62% reduction in convictions 17 months post-PPO compared to 17 months pre-PPO.
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1 Strong and Prosperous Communities: The Local Government White Paper (Applies toEngland only)
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