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

DH 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 adopted for 2005 - 2008

B7 The Adult Drug Treatment Plan and Young Peoples Substance Misuse Plans for 2005-6 have been agreed and are being implemented

B7 Action Plans for Anti-Social Behaviour, Domestic Violence, Hate Crime and Volume crime have been written

B7 There is a new Chair for the Responsible Authorities Group (incorporating the DAT) this is Chief Superintendent Dave Hayler

B7 Recruitment for the YOT's Youth Crime Prevention Officer post was successful

B7 Peter Anderson is now the Manager of the Community Safety and Drug Action Team

B7 Community Drugs and Alcohol Service, service level agreements have been written and are almost complete

B7 The new Government Key Performance Indicators have been re written to reflect local need and work

B7 A series of successful Domestic Violence Seminars have been held

B7 We held a very successful `Environmental Action Day' lead by the fire authority that is now being rolled out across Avon and Somerset area

B7 Four StreetSafe sessions have been held, and the project seems to be meeting a valuable need in communities

B7 The Team is leading in facilitating partnership working in Foxhill, in response to the recent antisocial behaviour in this area

B7 Two community clear-up events are planned in Midsomer Norton and Odd Down. Further events may be held in partnership with Bath University

B7 The Team is developing positive links with Bath University and Bath Spa University College, in order to maximise the benefit to local communities from the diverse range of university volunteers and societies

B7 A consultation on Residents' Association Grant Funding has been carried out.

B7 The new 2005-06 Safer Communities Fund is to be launched this week, to the local authority's CSAGs, Residents' Associations and ultimately, Neighbourhood Watches.

B7 External evaluation of `Elder Aware' has concluded that the project is excellent value for money, and does significant work in helping the CSDP meet the needs of this target group of older (vulnerable) people.

B7 Our PADVA training programme was heralded as best practice through the LGA's recent guidance document on 'Implementing a new DV BVPI'.

B7 YOT has moved to new premises in central Bath.

B7 Training has been delivered to feeder Primary Schools as part 2 of the Restorative Justice in Schools Project.

Planned Actions not achieved

B7 The Alcohol and Community Confidence strategies and action plans still need to be written - these will be delayed for the next 2 to 3 months

B7 Government Office is not pushing forward with Local Area Agreements at present

B7 Planning has begun for the `Be Safe' conference due to be held in July

Development Opportunities

B7 A new post in the Drugs service has been created to support all providers delivering Criminal Justice Drug Treatments

B7 A review of funded projects is underway

B7 There is a review of the Anti-Social Behaviour team with the possibility of moving to a multi-agency virtual team in the future

B7 There is a new structure within the Police for Community Safety

B7 The YOT Race Audit and associated action plan are under way

Potential threats

B7 Additional cost pressures from pensions increases and reductions in Government funding mean that a review of funded projects is underway

B7 Waiting lists for specialist prescribing due to over performance on numbers in tier 3 treatment providers.

B7 Anti-Social Behaviour co-ordinator post is now being re-evaluated and will be re advertised in the next few months

B7 There has been a restructuring of the Police and the Community Safety Inspector will no longer be a post however a new structure has been implemented

B7 The review and anticipated restructuring of the Youth & Community Service, precipitated by the implementation of the Children's Act, will have an impact on the Community Safety & Drugs Team's community development work, particularly in the light of the loss of the Community Development Worker based at Somer.

B7 The Partnership will be submitting bids to GOSW's excellence and innovation funding

B7 We have agreed our 17.5% PSA 1 target but have identified that due to our excellent performance since the 'base year' there is a danger we may not achieve this.

Update on Corporate Projects

B7 We are still working closely with the Councils Public Realm project

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

Warden Update report

B7 Monthly exhibition stand / drop in centre commenced at Green Park market.

B7 Litter patrols commenced as a joint initiative with enforcement in Bath, Keynsham and Midsomer Norton. Over 70 people have been spoken to with significant media interest. Patrols are planned to continue two weekly.

B7 CW's efficiencies realised through wardens working directly in their respective area's rather than having briefings at Keynsham at the beginning of the day - new communication methods have been introduced.

B7 Mediated to solve long running antisocial behaviour problems involving young car drivers in South Road car park, Midsomer Norton.

Exception Crime Reporting

These figures cover April 04 to March 2005. And relate to the PSA1 Home Office `Basket' of comparative crimes. These are offences by which the Community Safety and Drugs Partnership will be measured over the next three years.

This quarters figures provide an overview comparison of the complete period for April 2004 to March 2005 against the Home Office baseline for the 2003/4 period and are provided to give context for future reporting.

An across the board reduction has been experienced in all offence-types except Common assault and wounding (previously prevented in combination as `violent crime'). These reductions have been primarily associated with effective crime reduction mechanisms and the operation of programmes involving prolific offenders.

The increase in both common assault and wounding offences has been associated with the increase in reporting of Domestic Violence and Hate Crime Offences and also relates to increased reporting of offences within the night-time economy.

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

Performance Monitoring 04-05

The main national targets relating to adult treatment are:

a. Numbers in treatment. We ended the year with 719 in Tiers BE, over performing against a target of 615 and against a start figure of 511.

b. Percentage retained for 12 weeks: We over performed with a figure at year end of 68%, well over original national target of 45%,

Annual targets for DTTO clients saw us 1 client short of reaching target for commencement but below for completion.

We have received GOSW approval for overall performance monitoring of the TCAC/DIP Criminal Justice scheme.

EFFICIENCY - Average waiting times

Treatment Target wait (weeks) Actual wait

B7 Inpatient treatment 2 0

B7 Residential rehab 3 0

B7 Specialist prescribing 3 6.6

B7 GP prescribing 2 4

B7 Structured Day care 3 0.5

B7 Structured Counselling 2 3.6

NB Waiting times for Specialist Prescribing is an area of concern and reflect higher than targeted numbers in treatment in the specialist dual diagnosis services.

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