a)     

Safer Families which had been led by the NSPCC and Hamoaze had priorities for 2022/23 which included; healthy relationships, substance misuse and hidden harm, reduction in the risk of causing harm and improved alignment through new family hubs and Bright Futures;

b)     

It had been Safer Plymouth week which stated on 28 February, it had delivered various sessions and groups around the themes for Safer Plymouth;

c)     

Safer Communities led by Tracey Naismith (PCC) and Inspector Andy Smith had developed a new ASB case review policy. There had been a use of appreciative enquiry to inform understanding of community cohesion. Prevent training would be re-developed for partners. Funding had been received for Safer Street 1 and 3. Safer Plymouth had supported the roll out of the Adolescent Safety Framework;

d)     

Serious Violence Prevention led by Laura Juett (PCC Public Health) had aimed to; develop local serious violence definition and to establish new partnerships and to develop Safer Plymouth spend plan for the new OPCC serious violence prevention funding.

e)     

Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence led by Lyn Gooding (Firstlight) and Hannah Shead (Trevi) had: provided significant support and evidence to the VAWG Q&A session in December 2021 and also to the Violence Against Women and Girls Commission (VAWG); Safer Streets 3 funding provided investment in Bystander Training and work with Beyond Equalities to progress understanding; Developed Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation Strategy; A new Peninsula Project ‘SPARK’ had been funded by the tampon tax and would look to improve system response to working with highly vulnerable women; There had been an increase in the number of Domestic Homicide Review referrals;

f)      

Youth Justice Service which had been led by Jean Kelly had a Plymouth Youth Justice HMIP inspection and had received a positive performance summary against all 5 key performance indicators; The Impact Project which had been running for 6 months had gained recognition as a model of trauma informed practice; Emerging themes included concern at a lack of parental support available to reduce re-offending in cases of violence, increased reporting of young people carrying knives and a need to look at disproportionally/diversity issues in the Youth Justice caseload. 

a)     

The Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Honour Based Violence (DASH) Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model had been implemented by SAFER Plymouth and most of its organisations;  

b)     

Once the VAWG Commission reports its recommendations, SAFER Plymouth would look to deliver its service based on those recommendations;

c)     

The Plymouth Children’s Safeguarding Partnership had maintained effective links and safeguarding with a Strategic and Operational Group that had been reviewing arrangements and intelligence arrangements around any form of exploitation;

d)     

There had been no further updates in relation to the Keyham events, however once the report had been published, the SAFER Plymouth partnership would look at those recommendations;

e)     

The Board noted the improvements from the outcome of the Youth Justice inspection and specifically the improvements in Governance arrangements which had been highlighted as an issue in the Joint Targeted Area Inspection (JTAI).