Section 1 North Yorkshire Community Safety Priority Areas for Delivery (2022-2024)

88679_NYCSP Strategy 2022-24.pdf (nypartnerships.org.uk)

· Partnership development (links across safeguarding)

· Community safety hubs

· Domestic abuse

· Early intervention and prevention (serious violence duty)

· Hate crime and community cohesion.

	Partnership development (links across safeguarding)- Key objectives
1.1	To provide strategic oversight and scrutiny to community safety arrangements across North Yorkshire, being aware of both national and local influences
1.2	Effective performance frameworks to be developed, to monitor the effectiveness of the arrangements, including the assurance that resources and funding are being used in the agreed areas of delivery
1.3	To continually develop links and work with other relevant partnerships and within the changing landscape of community safety
	Community safety hubs- Key objectives
2.1	Work towards alignment of the Community Safety Hubs, including the Local Authority and North Yorkshire Police, to determine the best local delivery for the future
2.2	Each Community Safety Hub to maximise and standardise the use of the case management system, and for the data produced to be presented and reviewed by the Joint Coordination Group to help identify areas of good practice, development, or collaboration
2.3	Place Based Working- implementation of the recommendations relating to staff and administrative support uplift by North Yorkshire Police and embedding the police roles fully within the Community Safety Hubs. Including consistency in the line management of police staff
2.4	Development of early intervention opportunities to reduce the impact of anti-social behaviour and community safety issues in localities based upon problem solving models
2.5	All partners to celebrate and publicise the success of the Community Safety Hubs, highlighting the close multi-agency working across North Yorkshire
	Domestic Abuse Strategy 2024-2028
	Priority 1- Prevention and Early Identification Commitments
3.1.1	We will raise awareness of all form of domestic abuse to create a culture of prevention through delivery of public facing campaigns, promoting the message that domestic abuse is everyone’s business. This will enable friends, colleagues, neighbours, and family members to spot the signs of domestic abuse and feel confident to help those experiencing it to access specialist support
3.1.2	We will work with education settings, voluntary and private sector organisations to ensure that people of all age groups are effectively taught to understand what a healthy relationship is. The goal is to reduce domestic abuse in the future and increase awareness of what constitutes an abusive relationship, along with how to report it
3.1.3	We will enable individuals and organisations to recognise all forms of domestic abuse to prevent future abuse or escalation of abuse
3.1.4	We will, as a partnership, engage professionals across all agencies to improve the early identification of domestic abuse, ensuring local professionals can recognise signs and indicators of domestic abuse, as well as understanding the specific needs of seldom heard and marginalised groups. This will support developing a culture that recognises and challenges victims blaming language through all processes and practices
3.1.5	We will enable and empower our urban and rural communities to recognise domestic abuse and all its harms, by providing the tools and developing awareness of the signs, indicators and risks associated with this abuse. We will improve access to information and advice, with clear pathways to reporting concerns
	Priority 2- Authentic and Inclusive Support for All
3.2.1	We will provide specialist support services that are inclusive and accessible to meet the needs of local victims and survivors, consulting with those from marginalised communities with lived experience of domestic abuse
3.2.2	We will embed the voice of victims and survivors into local systems and service design processes
3.2.3	We will ensure that victims, survivors, and their children have access to a range of safe accommodation that meet their needs
3.2.4	We will provide a comprehensive response for victims and survivors of domestic abuse and their children which will offer safe accommodation and strong support and meet our population’s diverse needs aligned to the existing priorities outlined within the North Yorkshire and City of York Safe Accommodation Strategy
3.2.5	We will work towards achieving and maintaining the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) accreditation to ensure our housing provision across North Yorkshire and York is safe, secure and that our teams are empowered to recognise harm in all its forms, supporting victims, survivors, and their families to live free from abuse
3.2.6	We will work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to gather the authentic voice of victims, engaging with victims of domestic abuse where appropriate, to represent the views and voice of victims and service users at the Domestic Abuse Local Partnership Boards
3.2.7	We will ensure that marginalised communities and those with multiple complex needs feel safe and secure, whilst feeling they are able to report abuse and access services to help them cope and recover
	Priority 3- Drive Change Together
3.3.1	We will further strengthen our existing Local Partnership Board arrangements, by ensuring stakeholders work together to address the identified gaps within the findings of our local needs assessment and wider system review
3.3.2	Partners will work collectively to bring together comparable, accurate and consistent data on areas such as commissioning, provision, and gap analysis, enabling the effective monitoring of need and demand. This information-sharing will work to strengthen the future development of our strategic assessment and support our understanding around under-reporting, ensuring we learn lessons and draw out the right narratives from the evidence. Where necessary we will commission research where gaps in knowledge exist to strengthen our response to domestic abuse
3.3.3	We will ensure partners participate in the Domestic Homicide Review process, and that learning from this, Serious Case Reviews and Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews are proactively shared via the Domestic Abuse Local Partnership Boards
3.3.4	We will contribute to the wider strategic outcomes around serious violence and addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG) via their existing partnership arrangements and delivery plans
3.3.5	As a partnership we will ensure that frontline practitioners have the knowledge of local referral pathways and how to respond appropriately to instances of domestic abuse
3.3.6	We will work to a shared language and terminology that begins to recognise the positive benefits of a trauma informed and non-victim blaming way
3.3.7	We will continue to develop and deliver practices and interventions, based on the latest research and best practice, such as Claire’s Law and Operation Encompass. This will ensure that victims are aware and informed of the risks posed by perpetrators and that children witnessing domestic abuse have access to the appropriate support within education settings
3.3.8	We will ensure through our MARAC and MATAC Steering Group that we have effective governance and oversight of the operational delivery of MARAC to effectively reduce repeat victimisation
3.3.9	We will ensure that partners work collaboratively when dealing with adult and child victims of domestic abuse, adopting a whole family approach, to improve the safety of families by identifying the most effective interventions of support that align risks and needs
3.3.10	We will ensure that children who witness domestic abuse are recognised as victims as set out in the Domestic Abuse Act. We will provide comprehensive and coordinated support across all agencies to minimise the impact of such abuse to help them cope and recover
	Priority 4- Accountability
3.4.1	We will provide opportunities for perpetrators to change their behaviour through the commissioning of interventions that focus on all risk levels. We will look to inform and influence this through national decision making and future funding opportunities
3.4.2	As partnerships we will ensure protection, support and information is available for those who have experienced abuse during their engagement with the Criminal Justice System. All agencies should ensure that the voice of lived experiences is heard throughout these processes and used to improve and enhance service provision
3.4.3	As partnerships we recognise the importance of legal orders and notices (currently DVPN & O and soon become to become DAPN & O), therefore when a notice or order has been issued, we will promote multi-agency engagement with the victims during this window of opportunity to support lasting recovery and space from the perpetrator. Partners should also work collaboratively, exploring options to remove those perpetrating domestic abuse from the home to disrupt abusive behaviour and make victims and survivors safer
3.4.4	We will ensure through our MARAC and MATAC Steering Group that we have effective governance and oversight of the operational delivery of MATAC, with a particular focus on ensuring victim safety, risk management and the effective disruption of those offenders who do not engage in this process
3.4.5	We will ensure that the partnership arrangements between MARAC, MATAC and Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) are robust, jointly recognising high risk perpetrators of domestic abuse and stalking, so they are, where considered, considered for MAPPA management, and those timely referrals are made. MAPPA will quality assure referrals so that our response to managing the most serious offenders of domestic abuse and stalking reflects the risk they pose, and our protection of their victims is coordinated and safeguarded
3.4.6	We will ensure that we will maximise opportunities to address harmful behaviours associated with child to parent abuse, utilising best practice and research to inform potential commissioning opportunities
	Serious Violence Duty Response Strategy
	Priority 1- Awareness Raising and Public Perception
4.1a	Raise awareness of preventative approach and low risk in North Yorkshire and York, to improve public confidence
4.1b	Raise awareness of support services
	Priority 2- Children and Young People
4.2a	Reduce the number of young people as victims of serious violence
	Focus on children and young people who are at risk of exclusion and persistently absent by improving attachment and, trauma awareness in schools Develop relational behaviour policies and focus on personalised and strengths-based re-integration planning
4.2c	Opportunities for alternative education to prevent exclusions and persistent absence
	Priority 3- Possession and Use of Weapon
4.3a	Reduce possessions and use of weapons, with a focus on young people
4.3b	Reduce robbery with a knife or bladed article
4.3c	Increase knowledge of weapon hotspots and habitual weapon carriers
	Priority 4- Alcohol, Violence and Night-time Economy (NTE)
4.4a	Reduce alcohol related violence, linked to the night-time economy
	Priority 5- VAWG and Serious Sexual Offences
4.5a	Reduce domestic abuse offences
4.5b	Reduce rape and serious sexual offending in North Yorkshire
	Inclusive Communities Joint Coordination Group
	Partnership Development
5.1	To scope and develop a joint Hate Crime and Community Cohesion Strategy for North Yorkshire and York
	Multi-Agency Training Offer
5.2	To increase awareness and address emerging trends
	Communications
5.3	Continue to support and deliver on the joint partnerships ‘calendar of activity’
	Community Engagement
5.4	Build the trust and confidence to recognise and report hate crime through promotion and education
	Funding Opportunities
5.5	To identify and explore funding opportunities to increase understanding and awareness of hate crime through supporting positive engagement with communities and professionals

Section 2. Domestic Abuse Commissioned Services

IDAS- Domestic Abuse Victims Community Based Support Q3 2023/24

· Throughout Q3 of 2023/ 24 the Hub received 2491 enquiries for 1627 individuals

	2021/ 22	2022/ 23	2023/ 24
October	701	800	867
November	710	787	887
December	767	769	737

For the 1627 individuals

81.7%- already active in the service

8.8%- declined support

6.6%- unable to contact

1430 reported as female

160 reported as male

5 reported as non-binary

1 declined to provide information

30 missing data

IDAS- Domestic Abuse Victims Accommodation Based Services Q3 2023/24

· Throughout Q3 of 2023/ 24 IDAS received 246 recorded enquiries into the Helpline regarding Safe Accommodation

· Accounting for over 106 hours of telephone support

· It is important to highlight that these calls are received from across UK and not just North Yorkshire and City of York

Initial Enquiries by month

October 23	98
November 23	92
December 23	56

· 74 calls from survivors

· 166 calls from professionals

· 6 calls from a third party

Calls From Professionals

Adult social care	4
Children’s social care	20
Drug and alcohol services	4
Health	2
Housing	42
Legal services	2
Offender services	1
Other domestic abuse services	75
Other voluntary agency	2
Police	3
Refuge- out of area	6

Referrals Received into the Service

October 23	32
November 23	30
December 23	27

32% were accommodated into North Yorkshire and York Safe Accommodation Service. Reports detail the outcomes of referrals, this includes lack of current availability, decline of offer by victim/ survivor and other reasons.

Commissioned provision

· York Refuge

· Tadcaster dispersed

· Harrogate Refuge

· Ripon dispersed

· Scarborough dispersed

· Northallerton Refuge

IDAS- Target Hardening Q3 2023/24

	Items Provided	Individuals Provided To
Personal alarm	23	21
Window alarm	73	20
Doorbell camera	1	1
Dummy CCTV	5	4
Window alarm sticker	1	1
Door alarm	14	8
Letterbox lock	9	7
Solar light	7	5
Mobile phone	2	2
Sim card	1	1
Door jammer	25	19
Door chain	39	25

Foundation-+Choices Support Services for Adult Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse Q3 2023/24

Referrals	Q3 23/ 24	Q3 22/23
Emergency accommodation	8	4
DA Perpetrators	32	46
Stalking interventions	0	9
Victim liaison	4	8

Section 3. Serious Violence Duty Grant Funded Interventions

Our Strategic Priorities	Our SVD Grant Funded Interventions	How they’ll help
Awareness Raising and Public Perception	All SVD Grant Funded interventions and projects set out below reflect our aim to raise awareness and improve public perception of our serious violence strategy.	Increase public confidence and a greater feeling of safety among our communities. Overall reduction in serious violence offences.
Children and Young People	Emotional Wellbeing Support in Schools Therapeutic support and informal supervision to school staff to aid children’s understanding of emotions/ reactions. Targeting 20 high-risk young people in 3 schools Inspire Future Engaging 250 young people through mobile youth services	Improved practical advice for schools and young people to reduce aggressive behaviour, improve emotional understanding and prevent future violence. Improved social skills, school attainment and in turn attendance rates and educational attainment for at risk cohort. Fewer reported incidents of serious violence among children and young people.
Possession and Use of Weapons	Knife Bin Rollout Expanding existing knife disposal programme across York and North Yorkshire Emergency Bleed Control Kits Installing 29 emergency bleed kits throughout York and North Yorkshire	Decrease in number of weapon possession offences, and a decrease in weapon enabled serious violence offences. Decrease in number of fatal or life changing injuries.
Alcohol, Violence and Night-time Economy	Operation Night Safe Selby Creating safety officer patrols on weekend nights in Selby town centre to identify vulnerability and provide safe spaces	Reduction in serious violence and VAWG offences linked to alcohol and substance misuse.
Violence Against Women and Girls	Why did you do that? Creating a film to raise awareness of cultural harms and violence against women and girls She Was Walking Home Theatre workshops in schools, exploring harassment and abuse against women based on real testimonies St Giles Trust On the ground community support for vulnerable young women and girls involved in crime and anti-social behaviour in Scarborough	Increased confidence from victims to report VAWG offences. To change attitudes and beliefs for future generations to break the cycle of abuse. Long term reduction in VAWG and domestic abuse offences, and increased convictions of offences. Improved attitudes and behaviours in young people to inform decision-making, breaking the cycle of abuse. Decrease in crimes involving young people, girls and women in vulnerable positions, and a greater understanding of support available through the wider community.