Priority 5 - Community Engagement

Aim

To feed back positive partnership work to Thanet communities through newsletters, local press and resident meetings. To provide a variety of ways for local people to communicate with community safety and to establish partnership communication protocols and how they will be delivered.

Objectives 2009 – 2012

• To establish partnership communication protocols and how they will be delivered

• To increase positive news stories in the local press

• Increase publicity and give residents more say in deciding on community payback projects

• To carry out joint partnership evaluation of the levels of positive news communicated to Thanet residents

• Improve people’s perceptions around issues of anti-social behaviour (NI017 perceptions of anti-social behaviour and County Agreement)

• Improving understanding of local concerns (NI027 Understanding of local concerns about anti-social behaviour and crime by the local council and police)

Delivery of these objectives

Communicating with Thanet communities: To have regular community meetings in every ward, which are open for everyone to attend and raise any issues or concerns to council or police officers.

Increase awareness of the Partnership: To use the Community Safety Partnership logo when communicating with residents and to have a monthly Community Safety column in the local press.

Keep communications relevant to the area: To provide regular newsletters to every home in Thanet. This will give information on community payback, sentences given to offenders in that particular ward and local events and community meetings, such as PACT panels.

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The strategic assessment coupled with consultation events with partner agencies and residents have drawn together five key priorities for the Thanet District for 2009/10.

These are in no particular order:

1. Violence in the night-time economy
2. Domestic abuse 
3. Criminal damage
4. Anti-social behaviour
5. Community Engagement