Improving Community Safety

Part of Questions to the Deputy Minister and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 2:41 pm on 19 February 2019.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 2:41, 19 February 2019

The Welsh Local Government Association website states that, involving councils, police, as well as fire and rescue, health boards and probation services, community safety partnerships work to offer an effective multi-agency approach. But other than referring to working with councils and communities, there is no reference to the third sector. However, the Welsh Government, in its document 'Working Together for Safer Communities: A Welsh Government review of community safety partnership working in Wales' published in December 2017, said that third sector agencies are increasingly providing a wide range of community safety services from victim support through to perpetrator programmes and anti-social behaviour diversion schemes through to counter-radicalisation activity, but respondents from third sector agencies had reported that statutory agencies often pay lip service to notions of involvement and co-production with them. 

What action have you taken, or will the Welsh Government take, therefore, on its statement in that report that your vision is a Wales in which

'The shared responsibility of government, public and third sector agencies is to work together with the communities they serve and the private sector to address activity or behaviour that is unlawful, anti-social, harmful to individuals and society and to the environment' and

'Strengthening the role and status of third sector organisations within community safety partnership working' is key?