Cotswold Community Safety Partnership
Cotswold Community Safety Partnership (CCSP) brings together local organisations with a shared goal of creating safer communities in which to live, work and visit. They look to tackle this by using skills, knowledge and techniques to prevent and reduce crime, disorder and fear of crime, and to develop safer communities.
Community safety is not just an issue for police and fire and rescue authorities. The members of the Community Safety Partnership are:
- Cotswold District Council
- Gloucestershire Police
- Gloucestershire County Council
- Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue
- Office of the Gloucestershire Police & Crime Commissioner
- Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
- Drug and Alcohol Services
- Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations
- Housing Organisations
Other organisations can be co-opted onto the CCSP if the work they carry out has a positive outcome to communities.
The partnership agrees the district's response to crime and anti-social behaviour. It sets priorities to ensure partners are working together to create a safe place to live, work and visit.
Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR)
Under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Adults Act (2004) the Cotswold Community Safety Partnership has a statutory responsibility to conduct a review around the circumstances in which the death of a person aged 16 or over has (or appears to have) resulted from violence, neglect or abuse by:
- a person whom he/she was related or had been in an intimate personal relationship, or
- a member of the same household
The CSP conducts a review in line with guidance published by the Home Office.
The purpose of DHRs are not:
- To inquire into how someone died or who is to blame. They are not part of any disciplinary process. They do not replace, but will be in addition to, an inquest or any other form of inquiry into the homicide.
The purpose of DHRs are:
- To establish what lessons are to be learned from the domestic homicide regarding the way in which local professionals and organisations work individually and together to safeguard victims;
- To identify clearly what those lessons are both within and between agencies, how and within what timescales they will be acted on, and what is expected to change as a result;
- To apply those lessons to service responses including changes to policies and procedures as appropriate; and
- To prevent domestic violence homicide and improve service responses for all domestic violence victims and their children through improved intra- and inter-agency working
Publication of Homicide Review Reports
The aim in publishing these reviews is to restore public confidence and improve transparency of the processes in place, across all agencies, to protect victims.
Following the completion of a Domestic Homicide Review and approval from the Home Office Quality Assurance Panel; Cotswold Community Safety Partnership are required to publish relevant documents in an anonymised form.
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