Meeting documents

To receive and discuss the report.

The Board considered the annual report of the Somerset Safer Partnership. Thanks were given to Superintendent Mike Prior who had been the lead officer for many years and has recently retired. He has been replaced by Superintendent Dickon Turner. The Safer Somerset Partnership (SSP) was developed in 2011/12 as a single county wide partnership for delivering duties under the Crime and Disorder Act (1998). This report introduces the Safer Somerset Partnership’s latest Annual Report 2020-2021, its key activities and achievements for the year, the initiatives it supports through grant funds and its ambitions for the coming year.

The Board discussed the report and raised questions in relation to modern slavery and the County Lines threat to vulnerable people.

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board was unable to endorse the recommendation as the meeting was not quorate for this item. The recommendation was:-

•      To endorse the Safer Somerset Annual Report 2020-2021

The Board considered the annual report of the Somerset Safer Partnership. Thanks were given to Superintendent Mike Prior who had been the lead officer for many years and has recently retired. He has been replaced by Superintendent Dickon Turner. The Safer Somerset Partnership (SSP) was developed in 2011/12 as a single county wide partnership for delivering duties under the Crime and Disorder Act (1998). This report introduces the Safer Somerset Partnership’s latest Annual Report 2020-2021, its key activities and achievements for the year, the initiatives it supports through grant funds and its ambitions for the coming year.

Key achievements in the previous year include targeted communications activity on healthy teenage relationships and county lines, re-establishing the Hate Crime and Community Cohesion Partnership and overseeing the Serious violence strategy and delivery of this agenda via the Violence reduction unit. The Board was informed that 2020-2021 was an unprecedented year for the partnership regarding unexpected and highly impactful events. Coronavirus being one of these as well as a new legislation. The Annual Report described how the Partnership responded to these. Finally, the Annual report described some workstreams that are already on the horizon which will be explored in 2021 and beyond. This includes embedding new legislative duties for serious violence and domestic abuse, improving the programme of Integrated Offender Management, and considering the future of the Somerset Violence Reduction Unit

The priorities for the Partnership are agreed in collaboration with the Office for the Police and Crime Commissioner and will be refreshed for 2022. These are:

•       Protect people from the Harm of Domestic and Sexual Abuse,

•       Identify and Prevent the Exploitation of Vulnerable People,

•       Identify and Support those with Inequalities and vulnerabilities and offer support to improve health outcomes and reduce harm, and

•       Meet the Statutory Duties and improve Partnership effectiveness

The Board discussed the report and raised questions in relation to modern slavery and the County Lines threat to vulnerable people.

The Somerset Health and Wellbeing Board was unable to endorse the recommendation as the meeting was not quorate for this item. The recommendation was:-

•      To endorse the Safer Somerset Annual Report 2020-2021