Common use of Stronger Communities and Reducing Offending Clause in Contracts

Stronger Communities and Reducing Offending. Community Planning Partners can cite a number of key partnership initiatives that help to deliver upon the national priority of Safer & Stronger Communities and Reducing Offending. Glasgow Community & Safety Services (GCSS) is a Partnership, formed in October 2006, between Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Police, addressing antisocial behaviour and crime through prevention, diversion, support and enforcement such as CCTV, Community Enforcement Officers, Anti Social Behaviour investigation, Neighbourhood Improvement volunteers and Community Payback. Antisocial behaviour, crime and disorder cover a range of actions - from dropping litter, vandalism, fire setting and dumping rubbish to xxxxx assault, intimidation or assault. Antisocial behaviour is likely to be experienced by many people across a very broad spectrum of ages, backgrounds, social classes, housing tenures and types of communities. In recognition of the fact that these issues were blighting many of Glasgow's communities, Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Police created GCSS and tasked it with lead responsibility to respond to all aspects of antisocial behaviour with a vision of: 'To work in partnership with other agencies and communities to create a safer, better, cleaner Glasgow, where equality and respect are paramount'. GCSS also works closely with other partner organisations and has staff seconded from Strathclyde Fire and Rescue who work as part of its Community Protection services and APEX (who support the Community Reparation Service employability programmes). The benefits of secondment and co- location mean that the organisation is able to provide real time, consistent and effective interventions in a co-ordinated manner. GCSS staff are also proactive in supporting partnership working in a range of external settings, with Elected Members, Communities, Community Planning and other City Council Services. GCSS plays a significant role in the Clean Glasgow Initiative, in the associated Dog Fouling Campaign and in a City-wide Alcohol Campaign. In 2012 around 500 staff moved into a new purpose built HQ (Eastgate) for GCSS in the East End of the city, which is also part of the Xxxxx Gateway regeneration project, investing millions of pounds into improving the East End. One Glasgow Reducing Offending work stream. The aim of this work stream is earlier identification and better planning and assessment of interventions, in order to reduce offending rates and improve efficiency with improvements to be measured through a range of agreed indicators. This is being delivered through the operation of a Coordination Hub, supported by a Client Intelligence Unit, to pool knowledge and bring together agencies to better deliver the range of interventions aimed at reducing offending. The Client Intelligence Unit creates a single repository for all information, intelligence, intervention and diversion decisions relating to offenders and allows better informed decisions and effective recording of outcomes while removing duplication. The Coordination Hub brings together representatives from partner organisations to coordinate delivery of intervention services; by agreeing, recording and tracking care plans based on a shared risk assessment resulting in faster and more effective referrals to reduce further offending, improved measurement of outcomes, remove duplication and identify gaps in service provision. There are six packages of work which follow the creation of the Hub and Intelligence Unit. These are: • Early & Effective Intervention/Whole Systems Approach • Problematic/Prolific and Low Level Offenders • Alternative to Prosecution and Diversion • Short Term Prisoners and Through Care • Women Offenders; and • Information Sharing Protocol The Community Improvement Partnership (CIP) was established in December 2010 by Glasgow Housing Association (GHA), working together with Strathclyde Police and Strathclyde Fire and Rescue (SFR), recognising that anti social behaviour and tenant vulnerability was having a detrimental effect on GHA tenants and residents across Glasgow. This included those falling victim to vandalism, violence and youth disorder or where individual lifestyles were exposing tenants to serious risk from fire within their home. To tackle these issues, GHA, Police and SFR agreed to enter into partnership, seconding a Police Inspector and Station Commander to develop a model which would be effective in improving the lives of residents by reducing the impact of crime and disorder, making them feel safer within their homes and to identify those at risk from fire. The CIP employed a dedicated IT system and designed a ‘customer first’ approach, which included staff building a comprehensive picture of risk and vulnerability for tenants and residents within neighbourhoods. The approach also includes an automatic referral mechanism whereby vulnerable residents at risk from fire receive a home fire safety visit and smoke alarm installation from Strathclyde Fire & Rescue. The CIP includes operational tasking meetings in every housing office, chaired by Housing Managers, and attended, where appropriate, by local Police and SFR personnel, allowing the joint tasking of resources to address emerging issues. This allows effective intervention to be made at the earliest opportunity. Following a successful review of the initiative, formal agreements have been signed between GHA, Strathclyde Police and SFR resulting in staff from all three organisations co-locating to purpose built state of the art premises. This initiative has delivered key outcomes within the target areas, including: • reduction of Anti Social Behaviour across GHA tenancies from 18% to 5% • increase in Tenancy Sustainment 78% to 87% • decrease in persons not feeling safe at night from 32% to 10% • increase in total number satisfied with the area they stay in from 63% to 84%; and • accidental dwelling fires decreased by 18.7% with secondary fires (often directly attributed to anti social behaviour) decreasing by 40.7%. Both returns are compared to baseline figures recorded 2008/2009 The Persistent Offender Project (POP) is a joint venture between Strathclyde Police and Glasgow Addiction Services (GAS) is based at Centenary House, Xxxxxxxx Street, Glasgow. The project, unique in Scotland began in 2006 and is modelled on interventions originally developed by Lancashire Police in 2002. POP is an approach taken to work with high tariff offenders who live in targeted parts of Glasgow. Strathclyde Police and Glasgow City Council Social Work Services share information to identify persons who are responsible for committing a large volume of acquisitive and prostitution offences to fund a drug and/or alcohol addiction. The POP employs a small team of police officers and addiction services staff working to target individuals who meet the agreed criteria of persistent drug and alcohol related offending. The project’s key objectives are to: • reduce drug/alcohol offending • reduce anti-social and violent offending • promote community safety and well-being • reduce drug related deaths • reduce fear of crime; and • reform offender lives The project seeks to work with persistent offenders to engage them into intensive support and treatment through community-based assertive outreach. It means to stabilise the most chaotic and ‘at-risk’ misusing offenders and integrate them into mainstream addiction services. To date the POP has engaged with 467 service users/clients and its main highlighted success has been the reduction of recorded crime of 32% pre and post intervention. A recent comprehensive cost benefit analysis (CBA) compiled by the Scottish Government highlighted that £10 million has been saved over the last 3 years in the form of reduced economic and social costs of crime.

Stronger Communities and Reducing Offending. Community Planning Partners can cite a number of key partnership initiatives that help to deliver upon the national priority of Safer & Stronger Communities and Reducing Offending. Glasgow Community & Safety Services (GCSS) is a Partnership, formed in October 2006, between Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Police, addressing antisocial behaviour and crime through prevention, diversion, support and enforcement such as CCTV, Community Enforcement Officers, Anti Social Behaviour investigation, Neighbourhood Improvement volunteers and Community Payback. Antisocial behaviour, crime and disorder cover a range of actions - from dropping litter, vandalism, fire setting and dumping rubbish to xxxxx assault, intimidation or assault. Antisocial behaviour is likely to be experienced by many people across a very broad spectrum of ages, backgrounds, social classes, housing tenures and types of communities. In recognition of the fact that these issues were blighting many of Glasgow's communities, Glasgow City Council and Strathclyde Police created GCSS and tasked it with lead responsibility to respond to all aspects of antisocial behaviour with a vision of: 'To work in partnership with other agencies and communities to create a safer, better, cleaner Glasgow, where equality and respect are paramount'. GCSS also works closely with other partner organisations and has staff seconded from Strathclyde Fire and Rescue who work as part of its Community Protection services and APEX (who support the Community Reparation Service employability programmes). The benefits of secondment and co- location mean that the organisation is able to provide real time, consistent and effective interventions in a co-ordinated manner. GCSS staff are also proactive in supporting partnership working in a range of external settings, with Elected Members, Communities, Community Planning and other City Council Services. GCSS plays a significant role in the Clean Glasgow Initiative, in the associated Dog Fouling Campaign and in a City-wide Alcohol Campaign. In 2012 around 500 staff moved into a new purpose built HQ (Eastgate) for GCSS in the East End of the city, which is also part of the Xxxxx Gateway regeneration project, investing millions of pounds into improving the East End. One Glasgow Reducing Offending work stream. The aim of this work stream is earlier identification and better planning and assessment of interventions, in order to reduce offending rates and improve efficiency with improvements to be measured through a range of agreed indicators. This is being delivered through the operation of a Coordination Hub, supported by a Client Intelligence Unit, to pool knowledge and bring together agencies to better deliver the range of interventions aimed at reducing offending. The Client Intelligence Unit creates a single repository for all information, intelligence, intervention and diversion decisions relating to offenders and allows better informed decisions and effective recording of outcomes while removing duplication. The Coordination Hub brings together representatives from partner organisations to coordinate delivery of intervention services; by agreeing, recording and tracking care plans based on a shared risk assessment resulting in faster and more effective referrals to reduce further offending, improved measurement of outcomes, remove duplication and identify gaps in service provision. There are six packages of work which follow the creation of the Hub and Intelligence Unit. These are: •  Early & Effective Intervention/Whole Systems Approach •  Problematic/Prolific and Low Level Offenders •  Alternative to Prosecution and Diversion •  Short Term Prisoners and Through Care •  Women Offenders; and •  Information Sharing Protocol The Community Improvement Partnership (CIP) was established in December 2010 by Glasgow Housing Association (GHA), working together with Strathclyde Police and Strathclyde Fire and Rescue (SFR), recognising that anti social behaviour and tenant vulnerability was having a detrimental effect on GHA tenants and residents across Glasgow. This included those falling victim to vandalism, violence and youth disorder or where individual lifestyles were exposing tenants to serious risk from fire within their home. To tackle these issues, GHA, Police and SFR agreed to enter into partnership, seconding a Police Inspector and Station Commander to develop a model which would be effective in improving the lives of residents by reducing the impact of crime and disorder, making them feel safer within their homes and to identify those at risk from fire. The CIP employed a dedicated IT system and designed a ‘customer first’ approach, which included staff building a comprehensive picture of risk and vulnerability for tenants and residents within neighbourhoods. The approach also includes an automatic referral mechanism whereby vulnerable residents at risk from fire receive a home fire safety visit and smoke alarm installation from Strathclyde Fire & Rescue. The CIP includes operational tasking meetings in every housing office, chaired by Housing Managers, and attended, where appropriate, by local Police and SFR personnel, allowing the joint tasking of resources to address emerging issues. This allows effective intervention to be made at the earliest opportunity. Following a successful review of the initiative, formal agreements have been signed between GHA, Strathclyde Police and SFR resulting in staff from all three organisations co-locating to purpose built state of the art premises. This initiative has delivered key outcomes within the target areas, including: •  reduction of Anti Social Behaviour across GHA tenancies from 18% to 5% •  increase in Tenancy Sustainment 78% to 87% •  decrease in persons not feeling safe at night from 32% to 10% •  increase in total number satisfied with the area they stay in from 63% to 84%; and •  accidental dwelling fires decreased by 18.7% with secondary fires (often directly attributed to anti social behaviour) decreasing by 40.7%. Both returns are compared to baseline figures recorded 2008/2009 The Persistent Offender Project (POP) is a joint venture between Strathclyde Police and Glasgow Addiction Services (GAS) is based at Centenary House, Xxxxxxxx Street, Glasgow. The project, unique in Scotland began in 2006 and is modelled on interventions originally developed by Lancashire Police in 2002. POP is an approach taken to work with high tariff offenders who live in targeted parts of Glasgow. Strathclyde Police and Glasgow City Council Social Work Services share information to identify persons who are responsible for committing a large volume of acquisitive and prostitution offences to fund a drug and/or alcohol addiction. The POP employs a small team of police officers and addiction services staff working to target individuals who meet the agreed criteria of persistent drug and alcohol related offending. The project’s key objectives are to: •  reduce drug/alcohol offending •  reduce anti-social and violent offending •  promote community safety and well-being •  reduce drug related deaths •  reduce fear of crime; and •  reform offender lives The project seeks to work with persistent offenders to engage them into intensive support and treatment through community-based assertive outreach. It means to stabilise the most chaotic and ‘at-risk’ misusing offenders and integrate them into mainstream addiction services. To date the POP has engaged with 467 service users/clients and its main highlighted success has been the reduction of recorded crime of 32% pre and post intervention. A recent comprehensive cost benefit analysis (CBA) compiled by the Scottish Government highlighted that £10 million has been saved over the last 3 years in the form of reduced economic and social costs of crime.