Community safety partnership
What is the Community Safety Partnership?
The Community Safety Partnership (CSP) is a statutory partnership created by Section 6 of the Crime and Disorder Act (1998) to bring together local parties to formulate and implement strategies to tackle crime, disorder and anti social behaviour (ASB) in their communities. The key focuses and responsibilities of North Lincolnshire CSP are the develop and deliver strategies:
- To reduce crime and disorder
- To reduce the risk of harm inside and outside the home
- To combat serious violence
- To protect vulnerable people and victims and enable community resilience.
The statutory responsible authorities are the council, police, fire and rescue, health, and probation service, who are represented at the CSP Board meeting together with our partners in housing and the OPCC. The CSP Board meets quarterly. The principle of the partnership is that no single agency can address all drivers of crime and ASB and that effect partnership working is vital to ensuring safer communities. Through the development of the partnership and the strategy we will ensure we have:
- Empowered, distributed and effective leadership
- Intelligence-led decision making and deployment of resources
- Effective delivery structures
- Engaged communities
- Visible accountability
- Appropriate skills and knowledge
We will ensure we hold an annual public meeting and quarterly reviews of performance.
CSP Strategy
The CSP have a four year strategy to achieve its vision, with each priority having an operational action plan and tracker which is monitored through quarterly meetings in collaboration with partner agencies. The action plans clearly define the next 12 months work streams. Read the Community Safety Partnership Strategy for more information.
Vision
The vision for NL CSP is simple: together we will help to enable residents and communities to be safe, well and supported to live in North Lincolnshire.
The Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner has three aims, which the NLC CSP will consider in their strategic plan:
- Engaged, resilient, inclusive communities
- Safer communities
- Effective organisations.
Community Safety Priorities
Through consultation with the public and evidence gathered through the Joint Strategic Intelligence Assessment, alongside CSP partners and key stakeholders, knowledge and experience, the CSP Partnership Plan has identified five clear priorities and overarching outcomes which the partnership will focus on over the next three years.
Our strategic priorities focus on:
- Anti social behaviour
- Community cohesion and integration
- Organised crime
- Serious violence
- Domestic abuse.
By fostering strong collaboration among local authorities, police, fire and rescue services, health partners, and the probation service, we aim to implement effective strategies that ensure the wellbeing and safety of all community members. Through these efforts, the CSP strives to build trust and confidence, making our communities safer and more resilient.
Safer Nights
The CSP have developed a campaign targeted at our night time economy, working with licensed premises to ensure the safety of those working in the night time economy and members of the public who want to enjoy socialising safely. To find out more on our Safer Nights webpage.
Previous successes
CSP outputs – examples of CSP initiatives employed 2022-2025
- 300+ people attended Reclaim the Night 2024. Male participation significantly increased from previous years
- 500+ people attended the Violence Against Women and Girls conference at the Baths Hall, Scunthorpe
- Seven Emergency 24-7 monitored SOS help points installed in Scunthorpe town centre
- 82 DISC users registered in the Scunthorpe night time economy (NTE) since the software was rolled out in summer 2024
- 800+ intelligence reports submitted by the 3Rs Project group to combat OCGs since inception 2024
- 35 venues have signed up to the Safer Nights Charter and committed to making the NTE safer for everyone
- 28 referrals to the CSP-funded New Beginnings scheme for diversionary activities around ASB
- 600+ North Lincolnshire Scouts have access to partnership-backed Bystander Training to increase resilience
- 200+ people attended the Community Safety Partnership Conference in May 2024.
Crime and ASB
Crime and ASB trends 2022-2024
Significant crime reductions: 2022 to 2024
- 66.6% fewer public order offences in the night time economy
- 13.5% decrease in recorded arson and criminal damage offences
- 7.01% decrease in violent offences resulting in injury.
Significant ASB reductions: 2022 to 2024
- 28.6% fewer ASB reports recorded in 2024 compared to 2022
- 37.5% decrease in the number of youth related ASB reports
- 30.4% decrease in alcohol and drug related ASB reports.
Here’s some of our projects so far…
Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews
Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) were established on a statutory basis under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. It came into force on 13 April 2011.
Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) are responsible for undertaking DARDRs where the death of a person aged 16 or over has (or appears to have) resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by:
- a relative
- household member
- or someone they have been in an intimate relationship with
A review panel, led by an independent chair and consisting of representatives from statutory and voluntary agencies, is commissioned to undertake the DARDR. The panel reviews each agency’s involvement in the case and makes recommendations to improve responses in the future. The panel will also consider information from the victim’s family, friends and work colleagues.
DARDRs are not enquiries into how someone died, or who is to blame, nor do they form part of a disciplinary process. They do not replace (but are in addition to) an inquest and any other form of enquiry into a homicide.
The purpose of DARDRs is to consider the circumstances that led to the death and to identify where responses to the situation could be improved in the future. Lessons learned from the reviews will help agencies to improve their response to domestic abuse, and to work better together to prevent such tragedies from occurring again.
The Community Safety Partnership has a local DHR Policy and Procedures for undertaking DHRs in North Lincolnshire [PDF, 591Kb].
The Home Office Quality Assurance Panel review the final reports for any national actions and ensure the reports are ready for publication. The Home Office require CSPs to publish reports online which are anonymised in order to protect the identity of the victim. Current report are listed below:
Contacting the Community Safety Partnership
Contact us via email: communitysafetypartnership@northlincs.gov.uk
Please note this email address should not be used to report crime or disorder – there is advice available on the Humberside Police website about reporting a crime.
Find us on Twitter – @csp_nl
For information on reporting a crime, preventing terrorism and anti-social behaviour, please visit the Crime and community safety webpage.