Issue - items at meetings - COMMUNITY SAFETY FUNDING (EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, FOR DECISION)

This report outlines the proposed process for allocating the Committee’s community safety funds for the municipal year 2019/20 and gives an update on the project that was supported with last year’s funding.

The Joint Committee (Spelthorne) agreed:

(i) The Committee’s delegated community safety budget of £3000 for 2019/20 be retained by the Community Partnership Team, on behalf of the Joint Committee, and that the SSSP and/or other local organisations be invited to submit proposals for funding that meet the criteria and principles.

(ii) That authority be delegated to the County Council’s Community Safety Manager, in consultation with the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Joint Committee, to authorise the expenditure of the community safety budget in accordance with the criteria and principles.

(iii) The Committee receives updates on the project(s) funded, the outcomes and the impact it has achieved.

Reasons:

1. The process agreed by the Committee allows the funding to be allocated promptly and in a transparent way.

2. The Committee will be updated with the progress of the projects in order that it can monitor their success.

The Partnership Committee Officer introduced the report explaining that its main purpose was to recommend that the method for allocating the Committee’s £3,000 community safety allocation is once again adopted by the Committee this municipal year.

A representative of the Borough’s Community Safety Team updated the Committee on the success of last year’s project. This was the production of a children’s play to deter knife crime. He also related other projects that the County Council had contributed to during the year.