Issue - meetings

The Board received a report setting out performance during the Third Quarter against Local Area Agreement (LAA) targets within its responsibility; the current status of the LAA Refresh and expenditure against the Area Based Grant (ABG).

It was noted that there were two areas where performance continued to be challenging: residential burglary and theft from motor vehicles. However, the most recent data received showed that performance was moving on the right direction in both areas.

Additional funding for 2009/10 had been secured for acquisitive crime and anti-social behaviour case work. The Partnership been had allocated approximately £2M from the ABG for 2009/10 and a further £294.5K of from the Police BCU fund.

It was anticipated that full spend would be reached across the majority of the funding available for 2008/09. However, a carry forward of £185K was requested for 2009/10; this was necessary as a small number of projects were likely to run beyond the current financial year.

The Board was advised that the Stretch Target in relation to instances of repeat incidents of domestic violence continued to show as Red. This was due to a discrepancy in the calculation used in relation to baseline data. At present performance was being monitored against the number of instances of domestic violence rather than the number of victims. The business case put forward had proposed that this target would be monitored on the number of victims and changes to the baseline data were being negotiated at present.

RESOLVED:

That the report be noted.