Meeting documents

Report to Executive

4-Monthly Performance Report

SCOPE OF REPORTING AREA

Community Safety and Drugs

List of Abbreviations

NTA National Treatment Agency

CSAG Community Safety Action Group

DoH Department of Health

BME Black and Minority Ethnic

CSDP Community Safety and Drugs Partnership

LSP Local Strategic Partnership

O&S Overview and Scrutiny

YOT Youth Offending Team

GOSW Government Office of South West

Main achievements

B7 The Community Safety and Drugs strategy has been written, consulted on and is now going through all partner governance structures

B7 The Adult Drug Treatment Plan is in it's final draft stage outlining the resource allocation and planned treatment provision

B7 We have secured funding for Street Safe and Night Safe initiatives

B7 New Needle Exchange contract to support pharmacies and local communities has been entered into and is being managed by one of our Voluntary sector partners partnership

B7 User Carer groups for Drug and Alcohol Service are being co-ordinated and are feeding into treatment planning

B7 All anti-social behaviour protocols have now been written and implemented (both Adult and Young People)

B7 Wardens have now been introduced into Mid Somer Norton

B7 Partnership against Hate Crime has now written it's action plan for delivery over the next year.

Planned Actions not achieved

B7 Action on the Alcohol Strategy is not yet underway

B7 Recruitment for the YOT's Youth Crime Prevention Officer post was not successful

Development Opportunities

B7 Local Area Agreements are being agreed with the LSP in line with GOSW recommendation regarding Community Safety funding.

B7 Re negotiation of a service level agreement with Community Drugs and Alcohol Service may improve waiting times and service delivery further

Potential threats

B7 Additional cost pressures may effect funding of projects for 2005/06

B7 Central Government has created new Key Performance Indicators for Drug work

B7 Central Government has increased targets without increasing funding

B7 The increase in Drug treatments to Criminal Justice Clients has highlighted an increased need for housing for this group. Without additional housing their treatment is marginalised

B7 Drugs services are working to capacity

B7 Anti-Social Behaviour co-ordinator post is up for re advertisement again and this may slow down the work in this area

B7 Further delay in recruitment of the Youth Crime Prevention Officer will hamper the compass project's delivery

Update on Corporate Projects

B7 As part of the Community Safety and Drugs strategy we have undertaken a mapping of section 17 work (Crime and Disorder Act 1998)

B7 We are working closely with the Councils Public Realm project

B7 Work is underway on pooling budgets for Children's services and the DAT are involved in this work

Warden Update report

B7 Bath and Keynsham opened Warden drop in surgeries

B7 Bath homelessness substance misuse multi agency working has been developed

B7 Victim Support Partnership has been set up to assist in reducing the fear of crime

B7 Investigations into misuse of public toilets in Bath has been instrumental in the arrest of a paedophile

B7 Graffiti partnership work has reduced the amount of graffiti in the city

B7 In Keynsham an environmental campaign was led by the Wardens led to an asbestos risk (and prosecution) being removed

Exception Crime Reporting

These figures cover April 04 to January 2005

Overall a 4.1% drop in all crime categories

B7 Dwelling Burglary 24.5% drop

B7 Theft of Motor Vehicles 41.2% drop

B7 Theft from motor Vehicles 35.2% drop

B7 Robbery 33.6% drop

B7 Violent Crime* 32.3% increase

B7 Criminal Damage has increased figures can not be quantified at present.

*This category includes domestic violence and hate crime where currently the objective is to improve the amount of reporting which will add to the increase in this figure.

Improvements in the other areas are from a range of initiatives such as improved security in car parks and covert capture cars. A major initiative to concentrate on a small number of prolific offenders has also contributed.

Drugs Intervention Reporting

Numbers of new clients in treatment (post triage and sign posted to relevant service)

Target 46.5 46.5 46.5 46.5

Actual* 33 46 18 20

We are currently (as of January) running at 116% of our target for numbers in treatment over the year. As we have exceeded our numbers in treatment 16% with 2 month of the year to go (anticipating a 118% by the end of the year)

Total numbers of clients in treatment: 674 (as of Jan 2005) Tier 3 only - high level treatment

We contracted 540 needle exchange intervention for 2004/05 total to December was 1349 this represent a 250% to December

Treatment Target wait (weeks) Actual wait

B7 Inpatient treatment 2 0.6

B7 Residential rehab 3 0

B7 Specialist prescribing 3 2.5

B7 GP prescribing 2 2.7

B7 Structured Day care 3 0.4

B7 Structured Counselling 2 2.5

NB Structured Counselling and GP prescribing are outside of target waiting times marginally however due to the increased number in treatment this is not only acceptable but commendable.

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2. Reporting on targets and commitments made in the Performance Plan