Community Safety Partnership
Definition
A multi-agency governance arrangement that brings together police, local government, health, housing, education, and voluntary bodies to share data and coordinate responses to crime and disorder.
- Typical members
- Police, local government, health, housing, education, voluntary sector
- Function
- Shared data and coordinated response to crime and disorder
- UK equivalent
- Community Safety Partnership under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
- Scope
- Local, multi-agency governance rather than a single-agency programme
Common questions
Why does a community safety partnership need agencies beyond the police?+
Crime and disorder are shaped by factors outside policing, such as housing conditions, school attendance, and substance misuse, so pooling data and resources across health, education, and housing bodies allows the partnership to address underlying drivers rather than only responding after an offence occurs.
What kind of data do these partnerships typically share?+
Anonymised or aggregated crime, hospital admission, and antisocial behaviour data are common, shared under information-sharing agreements that set out what each agency may disclose and for what purpose, since the participating bodies remain bound by their own data protection obligations.
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