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What the Safer Somerset Partnership does

About the Partnership and how we deliver our duties and responsibilities

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About the Partnership and how we deliver our duties and responsibilities

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  • Considers data and information to inform priorities
  • Work collaboratively to discharge our statutory responsibilities and meet the aims of the Community Safety Plan
  • Support local services and projects through available grant sources
  • Engage our communities to help reassure the public that somerset remains a safe place to live

How we do this

The Safer Somerset Partnership operates at a strategic level, and it is aided by a number of subgroups.

Our duties and responsibilities include:

  • Ensure that the statutory responsibilities of the Partnership are delivered effectively.
  • Manage the financial contributions of the statutory partners.
  • Identify and highlight potential opportunities to access sources of funding.
  • All statutory partners to refer back to their own organisations to identify resources as appropriate where the Partnership’s statutory duty results in a financial (or other resource) implication.
  • Ensure appropriate mechanisms are in place to consider areas of escalated risk and agree direct action to reach quick time resolutions.
  • Act as the Violence Reduction Partnership leadership group, overseeing the progress, activity, and performance of the Somerset Violence Reduction Partnership.
  • Provide strategic oversight of the Somerset Channel Panel.
  • Act as an escalation point for the Somerset One Teams; supporting the success of the model within SSP member organisations and making strategic representation to other partners where required.

Our Partners

Community Safety Partnerships are nationally recognised bodies, comprising of ‘statutory partners’ and voluntary sector partners who work together to reduce crime and disorder.

The Safer Somerset Partnership brings together the following partners:

Strategic Partnerships Safeguarding Forum

The Partnership Chair and lead officers meet regularly with the other Somerset Strategic and Statutory Partnerships to consider topics, services and challenges that might have implications for all.  An example of this would be modern day slavery or exploitation.

Partnerships included in this arrangement are:

Last updated: June 20, 2024

Next review due: December 20, 2024

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