Transcript South Yorkshire Collaborative Working Group for Community

PCCs and Community Safety
Chris Williams
July 2011
Police and Crime Commissioners - Community Safety
Police and Crime Panel
Scrutinise
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Police and
Crime
Commissioner
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Duty to cooperate and have
regard to each other’s priorities
Power to call CSPs to a meeting to
discuss force-wide issues
Power to request a report
Power to
approve
Grant making powers
Request merger
Community
Safety Partnerships
What do we know already?*
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PCCs will be elected in May 2012 for a four-year term
Police Authorities abolished on 10 May 2012. All staff will be transferred to
the PCC who will decide about their future employment
PA Chief Exec becomes interim PCC Chief Exec
PCC can appoint a Deputy PCC
Every force will have one, other than the Met (the Mayor will act) and the
City of London
PCCs will have to produce a five-year Police and Crime Plan
PCCs set the force budget and determine the precept
PCCs have a reciprocal duty to co-operate with community safety partners
and will have to establish local co-operative arrangements with the CJS –
not a Responsible Authority on a CSP
PCC and CSPs must have due regard to each other’s priorities – those set
out in Police and Crime Plans and those in CSP strategic
assessments/partnership plans
PCCs will be scrutinised by Police and Crime Panel. They will increase the
level of transparency around actions and decisions taken by the PCC.
*as it stands – things can change!
Establishing panels
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Local Authorities across the force area are responsible for forming the police
and crime panel. They might wish to appoint a lead authority for this purpose.
Local authorities must work together to establish panel arrangements, i.e. how
the panel will look
Given £30k funding pa to administer to use on administrative and support
functions for the panel, plus c.£920 per panel member
Each LA will get a minimum of one seat on the panel. Elected mayors will
automatically take a seat for their LA.
There will be a minimum of 12 members and maximum of 20 on the panel
Funding will only be available for 12 members. Panels will have to find additional
funding for any extra co-optees.
The panel will advertise and recruit a minimum of two co-opted independent
members.
The panel can veto selection or removal of CC and precept by a majority vote of
2/3
Panels can recruit more co-optees (either LA or independent) up to a maximum
of 20 members
This can be, as far as it is practicable, to address political, population or
demographic balance
Local Authorities must work together to decide how the Panel should look
Home Secretary retains backstop power to appoint a panel in a force area
where local authorities do not.
Future Challenges: Funding
• 2011-12 – 20% reduction in Community Safety Fund,
paid to unitaries and counties
• 2012-13 – further 40% reduction, paid to unitaries and
counties
• 6 May 2012 – election day.
• 1 April 2013 – all Community Safety grant funding paid to
PCC (happened from 1 April 2011 in London)
• Ministers would like this to happen from 6 May 2012 –
but more likely is some early control of funding, e.g. a
six-month review of CSP spending or a half-year funding
settlement in April with the PCC allocating funds for
second half
What might be different?
• PCCs may choose to commission ALL CS services – or
just focus on policing. Ringfences undecided but likely to
be removed (e.g. DIP – though H&WBB DIP monies may
continue to be ring-fenced).
• If so, services will need to be evidenced for delivery and
quality – evaluations must be of a high standard
• You may be in competition with third/private sector
providers. Is it worth competing, or do you withdraw from
delivering some services?
• If you do compete, do you need to merge services for
efficiency across boundaries?
• Can you create a single commissioning framework
across the force area to realise efficiencies?
Winning the Argument
• How can you demonstrate to a new PCC
that CSPs are effective?
– Evaluation
– Self-promotion
• How can you make a PCC’s life easier?
– Deliver on their promises
– Take the work from them – single
commissioning framework
Joint Commissioning Framework
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Strategic Needs Assessment
Deciding Priorities and Outcomes
Planning and Designing Services
Options Appraisal
Sourcing or Purchasing of Services
Delivery of Services
Monitoring and Review
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
Police
Drug & Alcohol
PACP
CSPs
PCC
CSP/LCJB Owned
Joint
Commissioning
Framework
Domestic Violence
Prevention
and Diversion
Sheffield
Doncaster
Barnsley
Offender
Management
Devon & Cornwall: Getting Ready
• CSP Managers have been meeting monthly
since January
• Exploring options for collaborative working,
including joint Strategic Assessment
• Preparing options for composition and hosting of
Police and Crime Panel
• Hosting both CSP Chairs and Leader’s events
• Looking at a single commissioning framework
• Linking with other key stakeholders across the
force area
Keep up to date:
http://www.tinyurl.com/SaferCommsCoP
Chris Williams
[email protected]
0772 575 7796