SAFER AND STRONGER COMMUNITIES THEMATIC PARTNERSHIP
Minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday 9 December 2008
2.00pm in the Ullswater Room, Rheged, Penrith
Present
Dominic Harrison
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Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service (Chair)
Dave Coverdale
Steve Murray
Claire Lindley
Paul Musgrave
Lesley Graham
Roger Roberts
Joe Milburn
Vince Jubb
Mark McKay
Nicola Brooker
Carolyn Curr
Alison Tiplady
Willie Slavin
Michael Heaslip
John Dyer
Andy Shine
Annette Hennessey
Stephen Halliday
Andy Davidson
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Barrow CDRP
Cumbria Police Authority
Chief Prosecutor
Cumbria County Council
Cumbria County Council
Action With Communities in Cumbria
Allerdale Borough Council
Government Office North West
Eden District Council
Cumbria Police Authority
Carlisle City Council
Allerdale & Copeland CDRP
West Cumbria LSP Forum
West Cumbria SCU ?
South Lakeland District Council
South Lakeland CDRP
Cumbria Probation Service
Cumbria Constabulary
Cumbria Constabulary
1.
Welcome and Apologies
The Chair welcomed those present to the meeting.
Apologies were received from the following:
Deborah Royston, George Clements, Barbara Cannon, Chris Egon (Police Authority)
2.
Minutes, Matters Arising & Declarations of Urgent Business
The minutes were agreed as a true and accurate record. There were no matters
arising and no declarations of urgent business.
3.
Progress on Stronger Action Plan
Lesley Graham presented this item in Stuart Pate’s absence. The two documents
on “Activity to Deliver on the Stronger Indicators” which were circulated prior to
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the meeting were discussed and items were clarified. Detail on activity on NI 4
was requested and an interim narrative report was presented. There is missing
information and work is ongoing. It was proposed that a case study be brought to
each SSC TP Meeting and this was agreed.
4.
Cumbria Police Authority, Policing Plan Consultation
Andy Davidson discussed the document “Policing Priorities for 2009-12” which was
circulated prior to the meeting. This is a review after the first year of the plan
and there are 5 priority improvement areas.
It was proposed that alcohol should be included as this is a serious issue in
Cumbria and is a greater problem than drugs in some places.
Andy will include issues raised at this meeting in the document and he has copies
of the “Policing Pledge” which gives the specifics and minimum service standards
that communities can expect from the police which can be taken away from this
meeting.
Andy is looking at marketing strategies to get the message out to communities on
building public confidence and engaging with communities, and local priorities
must be agreed. Any further comments should be sent to Andy.
5.
Community Development Foundation Study Project
Facilitators are to be invited to the SSC TP Meeting in January 2009 to give a
PowerPoint presentation and more information will be available at that meeting.
6.
Towards a commissioning approach
Paul discussed the report “Towards Strategic Commissioning from April 2010”
which was circulated prior to the meeting. Background information and an
update on the current position were given – the commissioning approach will be
vital in the future if funding decreases and the document is open for discussion
today. Discussions took place on working in silos and the Stronger element CDRPs look at the Safer element rather than the Stronger element but the
comment was made that by making communities safer they become stronger.
It was felt that re-engineering is needed to make this group “fit for purpose” and
that there needs to be more “Stronger” representation at the SSC TP meetings.
Clarification of “commissioning” is needed – Dominic feels it should be in Cumbria
with local providers (“open tendering with social clauses”). A presentation by the
Procurement team on Strategic Commissioning will be arranged for the next SSC
TP meeting in January 2009.
Commissioning has already been agreed for 2009/10 and this is now being looked
at for 2010/11.
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8.
County wide projects – Expressions of interest
An “introduction & background” paper and six Expressions of interest were
circulated prior to the meeting. Paul gave the background to this item and he
wanted to discuss the process rather that the individual Expressions of interest.
It was agreed that it wasn’t possible to support all the bids tabled at this meeting
but unanimous support was given to the bids “Domestic Violence (Multi Agency
Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) – Coordination” and the “Scafell Project”.
The 4 remaining bids were discussed:
Neighbourhood Watch in Cumbria – an evaluation of impact and clarity on what is
hoped to be achieved are required and these are to be reported back to the next
meeting.
Crime and Disorder Partnerships – it was agreed at previous SSC TP meetings that
funding would be split 60% to CDRPs and 40% for other work.
It was agreed that it needs to be clear what the activity will be as a result of any
funding provided and what the outcomes will be. Dominic is clear on the
responses to the bidders to obtain the information required for the next meeting
on 26 January 2009 and the responses will be circulated 1 week prior to the
meeting for consideration.
Paul would like to meet with the bidders to ensure that all the information is
accurate. A scoring mechanism was developed last year and it was agreed that
this would be used again.
The CuPS Project bid was pass ported by consensus.
A.O.B.
Dominic circulated a paper from the TP Chairs meeting on 8 December 2008 and
gave feedback on the meeting. Any comments or questions are to be sent to
Dominic.
Paul and Lesley are leaving to start new jobs. The support post advert will be
advertised and Paul & Lesley’s posts are being debated and will hopefully be
filled. Formal thanks were given to Paul and Lesley for all their hard work.
Dominic represented the SSC TP at the CSP Executive Board Meeting on 26
November 2008 when the Red indicators were looked at and he gave feedback on
the meeting.
10.
Dates and Times of Next Meetings
The document “Future Meeting Dates January 2009 – April 2010” was circulated
prior to the meeting - the dates were agreed and all meetings will start at 2.00
pm.
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