Norwood Community Safety Partnership (Draft Please Comment)

London is outside the national network of  Community Safety Partnerships . Instead it has Safer Neighbourhood Boards funded via the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.  The Norwood Community Safety Partnership is a local pilot hosted (at no charge) by Winsafe Ltd on behalf of the Development Team for Neighbourhood Watch in Lambeth, pending the relaunch of the Lambeth Safer Neighbourhood Watch Association and the Lambeth Safer Neighbourhood Board.

Subject to the outcome of discussions currently under way, the partnership is intended to operate as the pilot for a shared cluster (copying best practice elsewhere) to serve the Association, the Board and their community partners. in the mean time the partnership is an unfunded partnership of equals, with one of its roles being to help participants to secure funding for relevant projects.

The strategy is to use volunteers with relevant experience to facilitate practical local co-operation across professional and funding boundaries between local community groups, charities and businesses and organisations (including Council, NHS and Police) which are undergoing radical change in a period of increasing austerity which is expected to last for years not months.

The Steering Group includes local councillors and representatives from:

• the Safer Neighbourhood Panels and Area Neighbourhood Watch groups for the wards of Gipsy Hill, Knights Hill, St Martins and West Dulwich .
• the local Primary Care Networks , Hill Brook and Dale and Croxted and their service provider, including community pharmacies and collective operations like the Well Centre.
• the Business Improvement District and local businesses, including Housing Associations and other Landlords, care and other service providers.
• schools and youth engagement groups, including High Trees and Rathbone.

Police Officers, NHS staff, Council officials and others (including national and pan-London organisations supporting local pilots for wider initiatives) are invited as guests/observers.

The steering group reviews progress with projects and deliverables on a rolling basis (for updating the website as necessary and reporting in a newsletter) with a more formal review once a quarter. Programmes and projects are delivered by consortia of participants and guests/observers. They “report”, as necessary, to those providing their funding. They “inform” the partnership.

The priorities so far identified include:

• Linking the webpages below to more detailed signposting website(s) maintained by locally supervised work experience trainees (e.g. customer service or digital marketing apprentices).
• Additional School Patrols and Safe Havens: to be operational before the nights draw in.
• Safe study spaces and access to work experience and training: priority subjects include care and customer service, hospitality, digital, cyber, construction, conservation, horticulture.
• Piloting engagement (including GPs and Neighbourhood Watch) with programmes such as the follow up to Behind the Lines. (Herne Hill, Dulwich and Norwood was cited in the presentation).
• Piloting early education/intervention to address Child financial exploitation perhaps linked to support for converged action in support of the merger of Red Thread and Catch 22
• Engaging target audiences (particularly vulnerable youngsters with the review of guidance material (for relevance and readability) and its translation into language that will be understood by peers and parents with limited English.

 For sources of advice guidance and support see the following pages:

• Emergency and Non-Emergency Reporting and Contacts Draft Please Comment
• Community Safety, Safeguarding and Crime Prevention Draft Please Comment

• Health and Wellbeing (Under Construction)
• Youth Engagement (Under Construction)
• Access to Work/Skills (Under Construction)
• Local Community Information Sources Draft Please Comment
•  Please e-mail community@winsafe.ltd for details and/or an invitation to participate.