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Safer Essex

 

Safer Essex has the strategic lead for co-ordinating the partnership response to community safety issues and initiatives across Essex, Southend and Thurrock and acts as the county-wide Strategy Group for community safety.

 

Safer Essex brings together key partner organisations / stakeholders to work jointly and effectively to facilitate a collaborative approach between agencies and partnerships in delivering the following community safety outcomes:

  • Prevent crime and anti-social behaviour
  • Prevent fires from happening
  • Understand and tackle hate crime
  • Understand and tackle violence, including violence against women and girls
  • Improve community confidence in the multi-agency response to community safety issues
  • Continue to deliver effective Community Safety Hubs across Greater Essex

 

Safer Essex is responsible for:

  • Overseeing and coordinating community safety activity across Greater Essex
  • Carrying out a high-level, overarching county-wide Strategic Assessment which brings together the assessments carried out by local community safety partnerships (CSPs).
  • Developing a county-wide Community Safety Agreement, in alignment with the priorities developed by local community safety partnerships and other strategic partnerships.
  • Raising awareness of current and planned activities of Community Safety Partnerships and networks and identifying opportunities for added value.
  • Sharing information and learning to improve community safety.
  • Ensuring awareness and understanding of new legislation and initiatives.
  • Working with other boards, sharing information and complementing their work and agendas.
  • Scrutinising progress in delivering all five assets within the Crime Prevention Strategy, and providing the governance for assets 4 (“We will support Safer Essex to realise partnership capabilities and capacity”) and 5 (“We will support ECVS to unlock community potential, develop and deliver community led solutions”).
  • Supporting the delivery of the “Live Safe” workstream within the Essex Fire Prevention Strategy.

 

For more information contact community.safety@essex.gov.uk