Agenda and minutes

Members of the Board are asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interest they may have in any matter which is to be considered at this meeting.

Outstanding actions from March 2023 CSP:

·  ACTION – All CSP members need to sign and return the ISA (Information Sharing Agreement) and return to Jeta (Outstanding)

·  ACTION – Steven Calder to meet with Angie Fuller to discuss children’s and adults resettlement panel. (Outstanding)

·  The Council is reviewing the way in which it thinks about and delivers strategies and services to best engage with and meet the needs of the resident population in 2023.

·  To our knowledge this is the first time a cultural competency assessment has been completed by a London borough. It follows on from the recent substance misuse needs assessment which found under-representation of certain ethic cohorts in treatment when compared with the general borough profile.

·  Via consultation with local professionals, this review examined:

-The reasons global majority residents may be reluctant to access services.

- How key strategic partners across local authority departments, criminal justice, health, and voluntary sector have adapted their policies and working practices to engage with/ meet the needs of different communities

- Which communities services are struggling to engage with.

- What more could be done.

·  Key findings of the review:

- No uniform standard for collection of ethnicity data

- No lived experience input from faith/global majority communities into the review.

- Many agencies have no influence over the ethnicity profile of their service users.

- Some shift observed in the ethnicity profile of service users in the past 5 years.

- Most prevalent barrier to accessing services perceived as language.

- Gypsy Roma Travellers (GRT)/ \Irish Travellers and Eastern Europeans cited as communities hardest to engage.

- Some successes cited engaging Youth Offenders, Eastern European, Rough sleepers, and LGBTQ communities.

- Every one of the surveyed organisations completed some form of Equality Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) or Unconscious bias training on an annual mandatory basis.

·  10 recommendations made as a part of this review:

1.  Consider this review as part of the wider suite of Barking & Dagenham Council strategies and policies re Equality Diversity and Inclusion:

2.  Consider cultural competency when reviewing/updating organisational Strategies and Policies

3.  Continue to seek out lived experience insights from Faith/global majority communities to feed into reviews.

4.  Embed Standardised collection of ethnicity data

5.  Agreed/shared definition of cultural competency across Barking & Dagenham

6.  Convene an event to promote cultural competency

7.  Organisations to strive to be more culturally competent following the principles identified in this review and the collated best practice.

8.  Continue to address language barriers.

9.  Address potential unmet need in specific communities.

10.Maintain commitment to Induction/ annual training around topics which nurture cultural competence such as

Councillor Worby suggests that this plan and the recommendations within it must go through the proper governance process in order to agree recommendations and agree the ‘global majority’ term within the plan as a council. While the plan has come through to the CSP it has not gone through cabinet and this plan must be looked at in the wider context. There are issues in engagement with eastern Europeans as one example of a hard to reach group and within the ethnicity data breakdown eastern Europeans are categorised as ‘White Other,’ which is not representative.

Clare confirmed that that terms within the plan had been discussed at the STAR  ...  view the full minutes text for item 34.

·  The Serious Violence Duty requires the CSP to produce a needs assessment outlining the trends and patterns of serious violence within the borough as well as a corresponding strategy outlining how serious violence will be tackled. These pieces of work need to be produced by 31^st December 2023.

·  LBBD’s violence and vulnerability plan is being updated currently and will need a refresh once the Serious Violence needs assessment is produced.

·  The Serious Violence Group working group met Friday 23^rd June and worked through the following:

- Co-ordinating with Daniel James on how partners can best fill the gaps in order to effectively produce a needs assessment – actions were assigned to partners for Jeta to follow up with.

- Redbridge’s Community Safety Partnership Manager updated the working group on the co-commissioning of detatched outreach on Ilford Lane where young people from different boroughs such as local, LBBD and Newham young people are often found to commit serious violent crime.

April Bald asked who is commissioning the detatched outreach and what provider had been commissioned to provide the service. Jeta Buzoku informed that Redbridge is co- commissioning Box-Up following on the agreement that LBBD’s CSP contribute their Serious Violence funding (2022/23) to this work to tackle a joint serious violence issue. Detached outreach delivery will begin from 1^st July 2023 for a period of 12-months and LBBD will be invited to monitoring meetings to ensure that the CSP is getting what they want out of the service.

Stuart Bell questioned If the Serious Violence Working Group will act as a task and finish group until the needs assessment and strategy is produced. Jeta Buzoku confirmed that this was the case.

·  The Serious Violence Duty requires the CSP to produce a needs assessment outlining the trends and patterns of serious violence within the borough as well as a corresponding strategy outlining how serious violence will be tackled. These pieces of work need to be produced by 31^st December 2023.

·  LBBD’s violence and vulnerability plan is being updated currently and will need a refresh once the Serious Violence needs assessment is produced.

·  The Serious Violence Group working group met Friday 23^rd June and worked through the following:

- Co-ordinating with Daniel James on how partners can best fill the gaps in order to effectively produce a needs assessment – actions were assigned to partners for Jeta to follow up with.

- Redbridge’s Community Safety Partnership Manager updated the working group on the co-commissioning of detatched outreach on Ilford Lane where young people from different boroughs such as local, LBBD and Newham young people are often found to commit serious violent crime.

April Bald asked who is commissioning the detatched outreach and what provider had been commissioned to provide the service. Jeta Buzoku informed that Redbridge is co- commissioning Box-Up following on the agreement that LBBD’s CSP contribute their Serious Violence funding (2022/23) to this work to tackle a joint serious violence issue. Detached outreach delivery will begin from 1^st July 2023 for a period of 12-months and LBBD will be invited to monitoring meetings to ensure that the CSP is getting what they want out of the service.

Stuart Bell questioned If the Serious Violence Working Group will act as a task and finish group until the needs assessment and strategy is produced. Jeta Buzoku confirmed that this was the case.

·  The Baroness Casey Review was commissioned to examine the Met’s culture and standards following a wake of policing scandals.

·  An action plan has been produced in response to the review’s findings: 

  - Changing the culture implemented within the Met workforce,

- Creating a new offer for women and children

- Building Trust with London’s Communities to restore consent

- A new police deal for Londoners

- New leadership and new management

-New oversight and accountability

- Showing London that reform is working

Stuart Bell acknowledges and agrees with all findings in the Casey Report. Stuart Bell also states that while the Commissioner also agrees with the Casey report it is not wholly agreed upon that there are institutional issues within the Met due to an individual’s interpretation of the term and the term changing in definition over time – Stuart Bell stated that If one can agree with the report then the whole report, including the refence to institutional all issues must be accepted.

Stuart Bell stated that Neighbourhood Superintendents (David Rhodes) has been  placed in LBBD to ensure effective oversight rather than having one Superintendent overseeing three East BCU boroughs. There has also been an accelerated process of charging police officers and firing them from the Met workforce following an increase in reporting from police and further investigations. Tackling violence against women and girls remains the Met’s number one priority and this has been met with an uplift of public protection details with the implementation of 50 new posts that will tackle cases of rape, sexual assault and other VAWG related crimes.

Matthew Cole asked how Stuart Bell can ensure that the culture within your service is safe for women and girls.

Stuart Bell responded that within his workforce there are 1700 officers which represent the most diverse workforce out of all the BCU’s and work is underway in reconnecting with all cohorts within the workforce. There is an existing board that examines data that looks at what proportion of groups are promoted and those that go through disciplinary services. A dialogue has started with ethnic minority and female officers in order to guide how the service can change.

David Rhodes highlighted that there is an engagement plan in place which includes police attendance of the Safer Neighbourhood Board and Ward panels. David Rhodes notes it is important to improve partnership working and that increased police presence in communities is desirable though with scarce resources only high-harm areas can be prioritised. Comms work has increased through newsletters, Twitter, other social media, and there is plans to hold 4 public meetings a year in order to further understand the needs of communities.

April Bald acknowledges the work of the police and the efforts of increasing neighbourhood policing and engagement and that this should start to build trust. In relation to the 50 additional MET jobs to tackle VAWG cases, April Bald suggested that joint partnership training should be offered in order to ensure partnership working and information sharing.

Stuart Bell  ...  view the full minutes text for item 37.

Ben Forbes outlined the amendments that have bene made to the Anti-social behaviour Policy and Procedure:

·  Removed - Cases of illegal drug use, production, or supply when there is no associated ASB. residents will be advised to report such issues to The Metropolitan Police

·  Making a report of hate crime - definition of hate crime, list of characteristics or perceived characteristics, examples of hate crime and contact details included to make a report. The Councils equality objectives are part of the new Corporate Plan this has been detailed.Following a hate crime we would work to support the resident.

·  Domestic Abuse (New section) - Content from the domestic abuse commission report, the domestic abuse improvement programme plan and the domestic abuse practitioner’s toolkit have been added.

·  Community Trigger (New section) - Community trigger information and online link made available to public.

·  Types of Anti-Social Behaviour

- Amended: Information on when domestic abuse is reported to us, clarification that this is investigated by tenancy sustainment (TS) and the process followed, this has been consulted with the TS team and the correct process implemented in the policy.

·  Preventive action:

- Removed: Completing pre-tenancy checks, housing people appropriately and having a robust sign-up process with clear expectations of behaviour. Not dealt with by the ASB team and as such removed from policy.

·  Equality Impact Assessment – all required information on the EAI has been updated following the changes and included.

Ben Forbes noted that tackling ASB requires partnership working across the board and in particular receiving early intel from the police in relation to gangs and serious youth violence would help community safety officers prevent escalation.

April Bald also commented that while it is understandable police cannot share all of the information they have, it would be beneficial to increase information sharing from a police and council perspective in order to achieve a shared goal of tackling ASB and gang-related crime.

Stuart questioned if there is an existing ASB MARAC panel. Ben Forbes responded that LBBD have a standing case forum that he is looking to change and evolve so it’s under the MARAC banner. Angela d’Urso offered to help with this work as there are some cases that go to MARAC that shouldn’t be in

ACTION – David Rhodes to work with gangs team to identify where the gaps are with information sharing.

ACTION – Ben Forbes to bring update on ASB MARAC to September’s CSP.

·  The CSP have appointed Standing Together Against Domestic Violence (STADV) to chair this non-complex DHR following a domestic homicide occurred in October 2022.

·  The CSP have collated all the relevant point of contact for each organisation/agency that the victim and perpetrator would have had contact with and have shared this with STADV as a part of the DHR chairs scoping exercise

·  The first panel meeting covered the following:

- Outline of DHR process and roles of Review Panel, Independent Chair, STADV Admin and Manager and CSP

- Support for panel members and secondary trauma

- Definitions of Domestic Violence and Coercive Control

- Police provide summary of case

- Summary of Agency involvement in the case

·  The review will pause during the trial of the homicide and will commence once the trial is over.

·  The chair will begin to consult with the family following the trial

Gary Jones noted that within the initial panel meeting was well run and that it was a matter of ensuring all partners had completed the required actions and documentation that outlines the victims or perpetrators engagement history with their particular service. It was also noted that the DHR had been temporarily suspended until the trial of the perpetrator had been carried out and plans had been made resume the DHR and to engage with the victim’s family as a part of the review process.

ACTION – Jeta to notify the Home Office that the DHR has temporarily been put on hold until the trial is over. Angela to send the letter to Jeta that was used to notify the Home Office of the DHR initially.

9(i) Women’s Safety Forum – Jeta Buzoku

·  LBBD launched their first Women’s Safety Forum for residents In May 2023 and gives a chance for residents to share with council and police partners where they feel unsafe in the borough and highlights what issues need to be tackled.

·  It was agreed at the initial forum that it would be co-chaired between Cllr Worby and a resident and that this forum would occur every 2 months.

·  The next women’s Safety Forum Is on Tuesday the 18^th July 2023.

Ben Forbes added on that enforcement are focusing on completing positive and meaningful outreach. Ben Forbes has connected with Dan Bacon in order to discuss implementing a standing schedule that involves putting up gazebos in areas of high footfall, inviting a range of partners and being able to engage with women and girls in order to understand the perception and actuality of safety within the borough.

Cllr Worby noted that she was co-chairing the women’s safety forum, with the other chair being a resident and an actual survivor of VAWG related incident. Cllr Worby commented that it was a really engaging and interesting meeting with a turnout of over 30 residents and is something that will likely be remain facilitated online in order to allow for increased engagement.

Stuart Bell added that even during his engagement with local mosques that the men  ...  view the full minutes text for item 39.

The 2023/24 Q1 work of the Domestic Abuse Improvement Programme is as follows:

·  Phoenix – this new service will provide information, advice and guidance to children and young people across the borough and provide a wellbeing and therapeutic offer for school age children affected by DA.

·  Support 2 Safety – the model was given approval for full formal launch in May by the Children’s Operational Delivery Group and the MASH Partnership Improvement Board. There have been significant successes and learning within the soft launch phase, and the new service is now open to all DA risk levels and model referral pathways.

·  AVA's Women's Homelessness Programme -  is a survivor lead programme of work which aims to improve housing pathways for survivors of gender-based violence and homelessness. AVA has recruited Experts by Experience across the 4 London Boroughs who are part of the pilot programme.

·  Health pathways – activity has been underway to map health partners against CQC KLOE relating to safeguarding/vulnerable responses. This activity is to identify any gaps in responses and pathways, as well as gaps in related service offer.

·  MOPAC funded pan London interventions – MOPAC made a pan London bid to the Home Office Perpetrator Intervention Fund to roll out Drive. The approach aims to increase victim safety and reduce the perpetration of domestic abuse either changing perpetrator behaviour, disrupting perpetrator behaviour, or both. As part of the EABCU, LBBD will be part of the first wave of roll out of this service. It is predicted there will be between 25-30 places per annum for the EA BCU LAs to access, so less than 10 for LBBD. In LBBD, we are seeking to build into our Support 2 Safety model and add Drive to the toolkit of interventions available

·  Learning and development sessions have taken place across Quarter 1, and include:

- Delivery of session to NELFT staff engagement group

- Promotion of system offers to the Healthy Schools Partnership

- Promotion of Refuge service offer to Probation, Community Hubs

- Lunch and Learn session at the Town Hall – Cranstoun and Refuge

- DA Awareness Session to all LA staff, LBBD Adult College, Early Years

- Practitioners, LGBTQI+ Staff Forum

- Cranstoun has provided working with perpetrators training

·  Funding – a funding paper has gone forward to the Council’s Executive on the long-term funding implications of the DAIP.

To date, the DAIP has ensured the basics are in place and LBBD has a new service offer in place (which will need maintaining in the long term). There is still ongoing need for new responses across the system (unfunded projects within the DAIP).

Cllr Worby notes that LBBD work in partnership with NELFT and the ICB and that in the long term Angela can put forward a funding paper in relation to proposing an increase in funding to sustain health pathway activities in line with neighbouring boroughs. Cllr Worby added that by putting this paper into the system, she will be able to escalate this and get  ...  view the full minutes text for item 40.

·  Prevent Strategy update – Independent review completed and funding reduced across London, LBBD is one of the boroughs that will have funding terminated as of April 2024.

·  Prevent education officer is working with schools across the borough to see how best to implement our work to make it sustainable for schools once the funding is cut as of April 2024

·  Projects –There will be no more funded projects form the Home Office but we will continue to work with MOPAC to access suitable and appropriate programs they offer. We maintain links with WHUFC and Future Leaders programme to manage individuals who need continued support.

·  Training – LBBD, Schools and Partners (NHS, Probation, Police) receive training and knowledge around Prevent and Channel looking at making of referrals and how the process and system works and this continues

·  Community Outreach – Schools, Religious institutes visits supported by the Police to manage any questions, concerns and build confidence and relationships within the community. Al Madina mosque has ongoing training and support – they will be taking over running of the school on site (Lady Aisha Academy)

·  Risks – some groups are active locally but causing disruption rather than raising extremist views. Currently very little extremist activity in the borough.

Cllr Kangethe noted the work prevent was accomplishing and asked around the details of the pilot programme being run at West Ham United Foundation (WHUF).

Simon Cornwall responded that the pilot programme is being run by WHUFC in two schools within LBBD, supporting school with 20 days working to engaging pupils in difficult conversations and who may hard to reach. It is still in planning process and once dates are set and more information is available Simon will share with Cllr Kangethe.

- CCTV Update – Arfan Naseem

- 5 – Year Substance Misuse Plan and Cultural Competencies Update – Partner review

- Community Safety Partnership Plan Annual Review – Jade Hodgson

- Serious Violence Duty and Violence and Vulnerability Plan - Jade Hodgson

- Council and Police Update on work tackling knife crime – David Rhodes & Gary Jones

- Crime and Disorder Strategic Assessment – Daniel James

- Domestic Homicide Review Update – Jeta Buzoku

- Domestic Abuse Update – Angela d’Urso

- Prevent Update – Simon Cornwall

- LGA Peer Review of Safeguarding Children’s Partnership Arrangements – April Bald

- Contextual Safeguarding & Exploitation and YOS Board

- Hate Crime, Intolerance and Extremism

- VAWG

- Tasking Group

- Managing Offenders

- RESTRICTED: Safer Neighbourhood Board Update

- RESTRICTED: Safeguarding Boards (LSCB/SAB Updates)

Stuart Bell notes that all the sub-group reports have been circulated to board members for reading and opens the room to ask if there is any update that sub-group leads want to present. Sub-group leads did not have anything additional to present that was not included in their reports.

Community Safety Partnership Board

Wednesday 29^th September, 10:00am-13:00pm

Microsoft Teams

CHAIR: Cllr Syed Ghani