This FOI relates to your council’s community safety team and activity.
1. The size of the team.
1.1 How many people Full Time Equivalent (FTE) are employed to undertake community safety work, including Crime & Disorder/Community Safety Partnership type activity?
7.6 FTE are currently employed by the Council to undertake community safety work.
1.2 How many are permanent (FTE)?
7.1.
1.3 How many are fixed-term or temporary (FTE)?
0.5.
2. How the team is funded.
2.1 How many FTE are paid from core council funding?
4.5.
2.2 How many FTE are paid from a grant or other external funding? Please identify the grant or external funding source.
2.1 FTE – Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) New Burdens Funding for Statutory Domestic Abuse Act Duty.
2.3 How many FTE are paid from other sources (eg. Contributions from other orgs/hosting arrangements)? Please identify the funding source.
1.0 FTE – pooled budget with Devon County Council, Devon and Cornwall Police, NHS Devon and all 8 District, City and Borough Councils in Devon to fund 1.0 FTE roles associated with discharging statutory Domestic Homicide Reviews.
3. Please describe the team’s roles, activities and specialisms.
The team is responsible for:
- Co-ordinating and facilitating the work of the Safer Devon Partnership (Devon’s statutory County Strategy Group for Community Safety). This includes coordinating and providing the administration for the Partnership’s Executive, Devon’s Interpersonal and Gender-Based Violence and Abuse Local Partnership Board, Devon’s Preventing Serious Violence Partnership and the Devon and Torbay Prevent Partnership.
- Providing Council and system leadership and tactical delivery in relation to prioritised areas of community safety work. This includes ensuring the effective fulfilment of existing statutory community safety duties as well as developing effective and proportionate responses to new legislation and duties.
- Commissioning Domestic Abuse Services.
4. Please describe how your team works with partners in the local system.
As above, the team works very closely and effectively with a range of statutory and non-statutory partners to address key areas of concern in relation to community safety. This includes collaboration with the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Devon and Cornwall Police, NHS Devon, the Probation Service, the Fire and Rescue Service, Youth Justice, Prisons, Education, the District, City and Borough Councils as well as our neighbouring Community Safety Partnerships (Safer Torbay, Safer Plymouth and Safer Cornwall). The team also works very closely with a wide range of voluntary and community sector organisations.
The team also works collaboratively with relevant Partnerships/Forums within and beyond Devon to influence/progress shared priorities and workstreams and to provide mutual assurance that issues causing, or threatening to cause, significant harm to people and/or communities are being addressed – this includes the Devon Safeguarding Children’s Partnership, the Torbay and Devon Adult Safeguarding Partnership, the Drug and Alcohol Strategic Partnership and the Health and Wellbeing Board.