Lancashire Community Safety Agreement

Introduction

In 1998, the Crime and Disorder Act introduced Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (also known as Community Safety Partnerships) to support and deliver multi-agency approaches to crime prevention and reduction involving the statutory, voluntary and business sectors.

In 2006, the Police and Justice Act made several amendments to the Crime and Disorder Act including the requirement for the Responsible Authorities to convene a County Strategy Group in two-tier areas.

In Lancashire this is being fulfilled by the Safer Lancashire Board (the Board) which acts as the overarching partnership for coordinating and leading on community safety issues for the county including the two unitary areas of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen.

1.1. Vision

'The vision of the Board is to make Lancashire a place where people are and feel safe'.

We aim to do this by reducing crime and disorder, anti-social behaviour, other behaviour which adversely affects the environment and the harm caused by misuse of drugs and alcohol and improving fire safety and road safety

There are a number of organisations from across Lancashire in addition to the Responsible Authorities and who have a valuable contribution to making Lancashire safer. To ensure we are as effective as possible the Board includes a wide-ranging representation:

Lancashire County Council
Two Unitary Councils (Represented by Blackpool MBC)
Lancashire Constabulary
Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
Lancashire Police Authority
Primary Care Trusts (Represented by North Lancashire PCT)
Lancashire Probation Service
HM Prison Service
Crown Prosecution Service
14 Chairs of Community Safety Partnerships
Drug and Alcohol Action Teams (Represented by LDAAT Chair)
Youth Offending Teams (Represented by LYOT)
Two representatives from the Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector

We will support the delivery of the Partnership Plans of the twelve district and two unitary Community Safety Partnerships and tapping into the potential of increased cross-border and/or county-level working. We will achieve this by preparing a Community Safety Agreement, in accordance with our statutory responsibilities, to address the concerns raised by the community and other priorities identified in the Community Safety Partnerships' Strategic Assessments and the Lancashire Strategic Assessment. The Agreement sets out how the partners will achieve our objective by identifying:

Ways of co-ordinating activities across the county to address priorities; and
How the responsible authorities might otherwise contribute to reducing crime, disorder and substance misuse through closer joint working across the county.

County Community Safety Agreement (acrobat pdf - file size: 527kb)