Agenda and minutes

These were reviewed and agreed by the Board as a true record of the October 2021 CSP meeting.

·         Status reports for 2 existing DHR and 2 new ones

·         Helen Collins presentation

·         DHR Action Plan update

• DHR1- This DHR will be resubmitted to the Home Office on Monday 4^th April after amendments requested by the Home Office QA panel have been completed.

• DHR2- This DHR was resubmitted to the Home Office on 9^th March 2022 after amendments were completed as requested by the Home Office pre-QA panel.
• DHR5- This is a new case relating to the suicide of an elderly gentleman. Partners met 17^th March 2022 and it was decided that a DHR will take place. An author is to be commissioned
• DHR6- This DHR relates to the death of a woman in 2010. The panel also discussed this case on 17th March and it was agreed that a DHR will be conducted and an author will be commissioned.

DHR 5 & 6 will be funded from the County DHR pot consisting of contributions from partner agencies and managed in the new system by Vicky Crompton from the Cambs and Peterborough Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Partnership.

Helen Collins from Sancus Solutions Update:

DHR3 & DHR4- Helen Collins from Sancus Solutions, who was the independent Chair and author for both DHR3 & 4 took the Board through her reports that were shared with the Board prior to the meeting.

The Board agreed they would be submitted to the Home Office, with a covering letter from the Chair.

Action- SS to send thank you letters to GRT SCDC Officers & GRT County nurse.

Harriet took the Board through the Strategic Assessment overview.

The two priorities are to remain as:

1.      improve resilience in communities

2.    support evidence-based priority areas

And the priority areas will continue to be categorised as follows:

Cambourne – Sustaining

Melbourn-Emerging

Orchard Park (Histon & Impington) Emerging

Northstowe- Preventing – discharged (with a watching brief)

Milton & Waterbeach – Discharged (with a watching brief)

Fen Ditton & Fulbourn- Discharged (with a watching brief)

Cllr CD raised the issue of how to capture non-reported items -KH responded that the new PCC post will be able to follow up on reports from Cllrs and residents and go out to speak with Community directly.  This won’t replace the need to report to / engage with police but will provide another avenue and a means of undertaking community engagement and environmental audits.

HL- Professional judgement is another avenue where we can gather feedback that is not reported.

The Board agreed the suggested outcomes of the Strategic Assessment and priority areas.

·         Youth and Families meetings

·         Adults’ meetings

Both meetings are taking place separately each month.

• Adults’ meetings

This meeting is flowing well now with a steady stream of cases. We have a few long-term hoarding cases which are complex. These put a lot of pressure on the agenda for housing staff and the fire service, but we have a mental health worker position approved to sit in SCDC Housing, which will go a small way to relieving some of this pressure.  PC will update us later in the agenda on the status of their start date. As this PSG strengthens, we are finding solutions and removing cases as ‘progressed’ or ‘solved’.

• Youth and Families meetings

This meeting has never really grown and had become quite static with only a small number of cases coming through, even though we know the cases are out there and there are issues. We reviewed this meeting last month at the T&CG meeting and agreed to task all partners to have a concerted effort to re-engage schools and market the meeting to Housing Associations and partners, to refer cases. As a result, I am starting to get positive feedback from them for their desire to attend, but continued work is required by all.

I have also been in discussion with Vickie Sharpe from the Early Help Team to join to deliver the County Lines video, produced by City CSP into all secondary schools in SCDC, which will also help promote the PSG.

We have received our first quarter funding from the OPCC as part of a 3-year plan to employ a CSP Project Officer, who will be line managed by the South Cambs CSP Officer at SCDC on behalf of the Partnership.  Their focus will be on issues arising in our local communities. This will be a community facing role, starting at Cambourne early May and details to come as soon as they are in post. Included in their role will be feeding back to OPCC on progress.

·         Northstowe

·         Orchard Park

·         Cambourne

·         Our approach to Milton and Waterbeach

·         Melbourn

Northstowe - EM

·         Northstowe Support Partnership continues to meet to look at emerging issues.

·         Creation of the Northstowe Youth Hive – Voluntary led youth organisation whose aim is to engage with the young people of Northstowe and to support them with putting on activities. In the pipeline is a ‘youth café’ on Wednesday evenings.

·         Various partners have been addressing issues of ASB as they come up. Racist graffiti seems to have been a single act, as no further incidents have occurred. Some general low-level vandalism has occurred also, but nothing of major concern.

·         A new Arts organisation has been formed over the last year (Northstowe Arts) and one of their aims is to engage with the more excluded members of the community.

·         Initial discussions started on addressing housing ‘tenure stigma’. There has been tension between those residents that own their houses and those that are in affordable housing.

·         CCC will be commissioning a professional youth work offer that will support the development of the youth hive and its volunteers, as well as support the local community by engaging with Northstowe’s young people by addressing any emerging issues through detached work and other initiatives. This is currently going through commissioning and then will go out to tender to a third sector organisation

Orchard Park – EM

·         Think Communities continue to chair and coordinate the Orchard Park Partnership – A multi-agency group meeting bi-monthly focussing on emerging themes and issues in Orchard Park including ASB/ criminal damage but also to build community capacity and cohesion.

·         Set up the Orchard Park Youth Partnership – Youth specific subgroup of the partnership focusing on increasing the offer for young people in the area to address the issue of bored young people committing ASB/ criminal damage etc. This is coordinated and chaired by Think Communities in partnership with the CCC YCC Amanda Silvester. They are in the process of developing a questionnaire to find out who the wider cohort of young people would be, who may benefit from taking part in Orchard Park.

·         The Youth Partnership has been working collaboratively with the Community Council to improve the offer, to develop more activities for young people. A new secondary age youth club is now happening every week, there are several free to access football sessions and there will be an activity camp delivered by sports students from ARU that will take place at Easter. There are, however, still some gaps in provision for primary age and a lack of non-sporting activities for young people.

·         Targeted Youth Work – Secured £8000 of funding from SCDC to commission Romsey Mill to carry out detached, focused youth work, working specifically with those young people that are at risk of entering the criminal justice system. The aim of the project is that once relationships are built, Romsey Mill and the young people will work on a project that the young people design. This is to divert away from ASB and to engage them in something positive. The Project has been designed  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

The Community Trigger procedure is now on the South Cambs DC website. For future Triggers, the initial review will be conducted by Environmental Health and we ask that all partners engage with EH when asked for information.  If EH have were involved with the case, then they will seek help from partners that have not been involved or a neighbouring authority, who will chair the meeting and conduct the review, to maintain impartiality.  If there is an appeal against the review, the Task & Finish Group will look at the appeal.

South Cambs have had 2 Triggers and both reached the criteria for a review to be held:

• Trumpington Meadows Trigger- A review was held on December 2021 and no appeal has been received as yet.
• Lambs Drove, Cambourne Trigger – the person raising the review was contacted to advise that as there was on ongoing police investigation, it would be better to see what happened with this investigation and if they wanted the review to be held after this time, then this would be done.  No further contact has been received, so a review has not been undertaken as yet.

·         Community Safety Event

·         Community Engagement / Safety Toolkit

·         Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Negotiated stopping Toolkit

·         Substance misuse

·         Reoffending

·         PCC funding

Next meeting – Oct 2022, date Tba

Close

12.30pm- Meeting close