Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability providing the Committee with an update on community safety in Southampton and the Safe City Partnership, attached.

The Committee considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Housing and Sustainability providing an update on community safety in Southampton and the Safe City Partnership.

RESOLVED

(i)  that the Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee be provided with an update of the action plan developed following the 2014 Community Safety Peer Review identifying progress made implementing the agreed actions;

(ii)  that, to raise the profile of the Partnership, the Safe City Partnership explore how the good work being delivered could be more effectively communicated;

(iii)  that the Safe City Partnership seek to develop the Police and Communities Together Panels (PACT) by ensuring that best practice is shared across the Panels and, to enable local members to hold Inspectors to account, ward Councillors be consulted when scheduling PACT meetings;

(iv)  that the Safe City Partnership explore the potential to establish a ‘diverted giving scheme’ in Southampton that encourages people to donate to charities that support homeless people rather than give directly to beggars; and

(v)  that the Hate Crime Action Plan be circulated to the Committee.