Issue - meetings

A presentation will be given.

The Board received a presentation on the targets for 2008 local area agreement. The HSP had already identified 36 new target areas and 7 areas for safer communities had been short-listed for further work. These were:

• Reduce overall crime with particular focus on youth
• Increase victim support for children and young people
• Reduce harm cause day illegal drugs
• Reduce drug related crime
• Reduce number of entrants to the youth justice system
• Reduce premature deaths form accidents or injuries
• Reduce domestic violence

The Board noted that it was a government requirement to choose 35 indicators from the national indicators set of 200. The Board received information on the national indicators which these initial targets could be aligned to and noted the difficulties in matching community needs to the national priorities.

The Board noted that there would be technical guidance issued on these national indicators in the next few weeks.

Clarification was sought on whether there was room to negotiate and reword certain targets if necessary to meet both requirements of national indicators and local safer community’s targets; it was confirmed that these are still in draft form. It was emphasised that there would be 35 local indicators, most of which would be selected from the national set.

Noted that there was on-going work taking place by officers from the PCT, the Police and Council on the safer community’s targets.

RESOLVED

That there be a meeting to share and take this work forward involving the officer group above.