Issue - meetings

With the assistance of a report by the Head of Environment and Transport, to consider the content of the draft Corporate Community Safety Strategy and key recommendations of the Section 17 Community Safety Review of Huntingdonshire District Council.

Noted the findings and recommendations of the community safety review and the draft programme for the forthcoming Community Safety Workshop.

Approved the draft Community Safety Strategy for the Council and authorised the Director of Operational Services, in consultation with the Executive Councillor for Environment, to make any further changes to the Strategy arising from the workshops.

Approved the draft improvement plan for the authority based on the recommendations from review with further consideration at the workshop.

By way of a report by the Head of Environment and Transport (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book), the Cabinet were acquainted with the findings of a review, undertaken in accordance with Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act, 1998, of arrangements for the delivery of community safety by the District Council and a draft Strategy formulated to underpin the Council’s key role in that respect.

Having recognised the success of the work which had been undertaken by the Huntingdonshire Community Safety Partnership, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

(a)  that the findings and recommendations of the Community Safety Review be noted;

(b)  that the draft programme for the Community Safety Workshop, as appended to the report be noted;

(c)  that the draft Community Safety Strategy for Huntingdonshire be approved and the Director of Operational Services authorised, after consultation with the Executive Councillor for the Environment, to make any necessary changes to the text of the draft Strategy which might be occasioned by the outcomes of the workshop referred to in the preceding resolution; and

(d)  that the draft improvement plan appended to the report now submitted be approved.