Appendix A: List of Additional Resources
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Strategy Regulations: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20071830.htm
Information Sharing Regulations: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20071831.htm
General Community Safety Websites
| Source | Name | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Office | Crime Reduction website | Home Office website aimed at practitioners to help them achieve and sustain reductions in crime and disorder. Interactive resource where practitioners, policy-makers and others can find guidance of good practice and share ideas and solutions. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk |
| Ideas Exchange | Crime Reduction website | An Effective Practice Database housed on the Crime Reduction Website, containing examples of projects from across the country as a resource for practitioners and partnerships developing their plans. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/iex |
| National Community Safety Network (NCSN) | National Community Safety Network website | Website for the NCSN, a practitioner-led organisation supporting those involved in promoting community safety/crime reduction throughout the UK. Provides news, information, research, best practice, web links and job vacancies. | http://www.community-safety.net |
| Renewal.net | Renewal.net website | Online guide to neighbourhood renewal, including how-to-guides, case studies, project summaries, toolkits, events, discussion forums and useful links. | http://www.renewal.net |
| Audit Commission | Audit Commission: Community Safety | Reports, inspection reports, performance indicators, tools and links related to community safety. | http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/subject.asp?CategoryID |
| Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) | IDeA: Safer and Stronger Communities | IDeA Knowledge works for local government improvement by providing news and examples of good practice from councils across England and Wales. This section of the website provides community safety information. | http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=448290 |
| Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) - Performance Management in Partnership | Performance Management in Partnership website | IDeA-sponsored community of practice space for Performance Management in Partnership, with links to resources, tools and guidance which can help in performance management in partnership. | http://pmpartner.editme.com/ |
| Local Government Association (LGA) | LGA: Community Safety | The LGA promotes the interests of local governments in England and Wales. This section of the website provides information on community safety. | http://www.lga.gov.uk/OurWork.asp?lsection=59&ccat=870 |
Specific Initiative Websites
| Source | Name | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Office | Neighbourhood Watch | Part of the Crime Reduction website, this is the official Neighbourhood Watch website containing news, information, documents and useful links relating to the Neighbourhood Watch programme. | http://www.neighbourhoodwatch.gov.uk.com |
| Home Office | Drug Action Teams (DAT) | Information to help partnerships, Drug Action Teams (DATs) and CDRPs/CSPs carry out their work, including news and events, information on the drug strategy, guidance, newsletters and useful links. | http://www.drugs.gov.uk/dat/ |
| Home Office | Drug Intervention Programmes (DIP) | Information on the Drugs Intervention Programme (DIP) including the drugs strategy, news and events, guidance, case studies and publications. | http://www.drugs.gov.uk/drug-interventions-programme/ |
| Home Office | Prolific and other Priority Offenders (PPO) | Guidance, reports, good practice and case studies on the Prolific and other Priority Offender (PPO) scheme. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/ppo/ppominisite09.htm |
| Home Office | Citizen Focus | Information on the Citizen Focus commitment under the Police Reform Programme, including citizen- focused policing, neighbourhood policing, community safety accreditation, and local policing summaries. Contains guidance and case studies. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/police-reform/reform-programme/citizen-focus |
| Home Office | Domestic Violence mini-site | Section of the Crime Reduction website that provides information on domestic violence. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/dv/dv01.htm |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | Together We Can | Website for the government campaign to bring government and the people closer together. The site aims to provide sources of help including organisations, sources of funding, and advice. | http://togetherwecan.direct.gov.uk |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | Cleaner Greener Safer Communities | Campaign to create quality spaces in which people want to live and can be proud of, which others will respect. Contains information on working in partnership, powers and tools available and innovative approaches and good practice. | http://www.cleanersafergreener.gov.uk |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | Arson Control Forum | The Arson Control Forum was created in April 2001 as a Government-led national body seeking to reduce arson-related deaths, injuries and damage. It brings together stakeholders such as the fire and rescue service, local authorities, the police service, insurance companies and government departments. | http://www.communities.gov.uk/fire/arsonreduction/arsoncontrolforum/ |
| Ministry of Justice (MoJ) | Community Justice | Part of the Government’s agenda to tackle anti-social behaviour and the crime associated with it, bringing courts and the criminal justice system closer to the communities they serve. Contains news, media publications and useful links. | http://www.communityjustice.gov.uk |
| Ministry of Justice (MoJ) – National Offender Management Service (NOMS) | National Reducing Re-offending Delivery Plan | The plan, launched in November 2005, outlines the Government commitment to reduce re-offending by improving offenders’ access to mainstream services such as accommodation. | http://noms.justice.gov.uk/news-publications-events/publications/strategy/reducing-reoffend-delivery-plan/reducing-reoffending-delivery?view=Standard&pubID=380988 |
| Ministry of Justice (MoJ) – National Offender Management Service (NOMS) | Regional Reducing Re-offending Delivery Plan | The nine regions in England, and Wales, have all developed strategies to take forward work on the pathways, with appropriate regional partners leading work on each of the strands through their Regional Reducing Re-offending Partnership Boards. | http://noms.justice.gov.uk/noms-regions/ |
| Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) | Respect Task Force | Central government, local agencies and citizens working together to tackled anti-social behaviour. Contains handbook, resources and good practice. | http://www.respect.gov.uk |
| Department for Transport (DfT) | Withinreach | DfT sponsored programme providing training and advice concerning accessibility planning. Contains guidance, toolkits, news, and useful links. | http://www.within-reach.org.uk |
| Ministry of Justice (MoJ) – National Offender Management Service (NOMS) | Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) | General information on Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA), including links to MAPPA guidance and reports. | http://www.noms.justice.gov.uk/protecting-the-public/Supervision/mappa |
| National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA) | Neighbourhood Policing Programme | Information on the Neighbourhood Policing Programme, including guidance, practical advice, FAQs and useful links. | http://www.neighbourhoodpolicing.co.uk |
| Local Government Association (LGA) | Reducing Offending and Re-offending Programme with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) | Joint project between the LGA and NOMS that seeks to identify the potential benefits to local government and communities from closer working with correctional services, both probation and prisons and develop new relationships between correctional services and local government. Includes information on Community Payback. | http://www.lga.gov.uk/ProjectHome.asp?lsection=59&ccat=946 |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | Neighbourhood Renewal Unit | Responsible for overseeing the Government’s comprehensive neighbourhood renewal strategy. Includes information on cross-sector regeneration programmes (New Deal for Communities, Neighbourhood Management, Neighbourhood Wardens, and business involvement in regeneration). | http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/page.asp?id=3 |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | New Deal for Communities (NDC) | Key programme in tackling multi-deprivation in the most deprived neighbourhoods. Contains information on areas where grants have been approved, how-to-guides, information on the Streetgames programme and contact lists. | http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/page.asp?id=617 |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) - Neighbourhood Renewal Unit | Neighbourhood Management | The Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder programme is a process involving communities working with local agencies to improve services at neighbourhood level. Neighbourhood management aims to tackle quality of life (“liveability”) issues in communities through better management of the local environment; increasing community safety; improving housing stock; working with young people; and encouraging employment opportunities. |
http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/page.asp?id=577 |
| The National Travelwise Association and Living Streets | Walk to School Campaign | A campaign that asks parents, pupils and teachers to think about their journey to and from school, and how making this journey on foot can mitigate against reduced physical activity among children, increased childhood obesity, urban congestion and air pollution. | http://www.walktoschool.org.uk/ |
| Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) | Public space legislation resource | Providing a quick and easy point of reference for practitioners who want to find out what legislation is on the statute book in relation to all elements of open space management. | http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=78105 |
| Audit Commission and Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) | Library of local performance indicators: Community safety | An electronic library providing a source of ‘ready made’ performance indicators that you can adopt on a voluntary basis. All the indicators included in the electronic library have standard definitions to enable comparison where appropriate. | http://www.local-pi-library.gov.uk/LIBRARY_ALL_PIS. ASP?MENUID=502 |
| Cabinet Office | Office of the Third Sector | Information about working with the third sector, including VCS development and community participation initiatives. | http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/third_sector/index.asp |
| Welsh Assembly Government | Topic: Community Safety | Website containing information and useful links on community safety in Wales. | http://wales.gov.uk/topics/housingandcommunity/safety/?lang=en |
Non-governmental Websites
| Source | Name | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victim Support | Victim Support website | Victim Support is the independent charity which helps people cope with the effects of crime providing free and confidential support and information to help victims deal with their experiences. | http://www.victimsupport.org.uk/ |
| Crime Concern | Crime Concern website | Crime Concern is a national crime prevention charity offering crime prevention and offender justice services. Crime Concern works largely, but not exclusively, with young people, providing routes away from crime and anti-social behaviour and back into full-time education and employment. |
http://www.crimeconcern.org.uk/ |
| Crimestoppers | Crimestoppers website | Crimestoppers is an independent UK-wide charity working to stop crime. The charity operates across the UK to help identify, prevent, solve and reduce crime. | http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/ |
| University College London – Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science | Jill Dando Institute website | The UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science is the first in the world devoted specifically to reducing crime, through teaching, research, public policy analysis and by the dissemination of evidence-based information on crime reduction. | http://www.jdi.ucl.ac.uk/ |
| NACRO | NACRO website | NACRO is an independent voluntary organisation working to prevent crime. Nacro has six main areas of work: resettlement, housing, education and employment, activities for young people, community and family schemes and finding better ways to reduce crime. | http://www.nacro.org.uk/ |
| The London Drug and Alcohol Network (LDAN) and Alcohol Concern | Local Alcohol Strategy Toolkit | A toolkit designed to help local policy makers and strategists in developing local responses to alcohol problems. It sets out a process for the work, and gives guidance on each step of the way. | http://www.localalcoholstrategies.org.uk/ |
| Skills for Justice | National Occupational Standards | This website has details and information on the Skills for Justice national occupational standards. | http://www.skillsforjustice.com/nos/home.htm |
| Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS) | Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS) website | The Centre for Public Scrutiny was created to promote the value of scrutiny in modern and effective government – not only to hold executives to account but also to create a constructive dialogue between the public and its elected representatives – to improve the quality of public services. | http://www.cfps.org.uk/ |
| Social Research Association (SRA) | SRA website | The Social Research Association plays a unique role as an organisation open to social research practitioners and trainees from all sectors, as well as others with an interest in social research. | http://www.the-sra.org.uk/ |
| UK Evaluation Society | UK Evaluation Society website | The UK Evaluation Society exists to promote and improve the theory, practice, understanding and utilisation of evaluation and its contribution to public knowledge and to promote cross-sector and cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate. | http://www.evaluation.org.uk/ |
| Charities Evaluation Services | Charities Evaluation Services website | Charities Evaluation Services is the UK’s leading provider of information and advice on quality and evaluation systems for the voluntary sector. | http://www.ces-vol.org.uk/ |
Related Guidance and Useful Websites
| Source | Name | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Office – Drug Action Teams (DAT) | Audit Annex B | Suggestions on data sources that partnerships might consider during the strategic assessment process to ensure that the drugs element is based on an accurate assessment of the extent and nature of local misuse of drugs. | http://www.drugs.gov.uk/publication-search/drug-strategy/audit-annex-b.pdf |
| Home Office - Community Policing | Citizen-focused Good Practice Guide | Guidance on techniques that forces can use to improve user satisfaction and confidence. Guide has experiences of forces across the country, includes case studies, and interactive links. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/community-policing/citizen-focused-policing/citizen-focus-guide-launched |
| Home Office – Drug Action Teams (DAT) | Audit Annex B | Suggestions on data sources that partnerships might consider during the strategic assessment process to ensure that the drugs element is based on an accurate assessment of the extent and nature of local misuse of drugs. | http://www.drugs.gov.uk/publication-search/drug-strategy/audit-annex-b.pdf |
| Home Office – Drug Action Teams (DAT) and Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) | Drug Strategy: Workforce Planning | Overview of the Workforce Development Plan to ensure that there is a sufficient number of competent staff to deliver the objectives of the Drug Strategy and ensure that substance misuse is mainstreamed. | http://www.drugs.gov.uk/drug-strategy/workforce-planning/overview-and-strat/ |
| Home Office - Community Policing | Tactical Plan Guidance: Managing Neighbourhood Policing through the National Intelligence Model | Guidance on integrating problem-solving and enforcement activity of Neighbourhood Policing Teams with the Tasking and Coordination Group process thereby maximising the use of NIM Tactical Options. Also designed for use by multi-agency policing teams and tasking processes. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/community-policing/2006-3-21-Tactical_Plan.pdf |
| Home Office | iQuanta | iQuanta is an internet-based analysis tool developed by the Police and Crime Standards Directorate to turn statistical data routinely collected by the Home Office into useful outputs for understanding and improving policing performance at partnership level and above. Access to iQuanta is provided to police forces, police authorities and members of partnerships. | https://iquanta.net/Default.aspx?tabid=27 |
| Home Office | Guide to using iQuanta | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/performance-and-measurement/iquanta/ | |
| Home Office - Citizen Focus | A Practical Guide to Local Policing Summaries | Gives police authorities and forces details of the minimum standards that all summaries are required to meet. Includes technical guidance on design and copyright. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/police-reform/Police_summaries_Guide.pdf |
| Home Office - Citizen Focus | Local Policing Summaries: Good Practice Guide to Maximise Impact | Guidance on how forces can maximise the impact of Local Policing Summaries. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/police-reform/LocalPolicingGoodPractice |
| Home Office | National Plan for Domestic Violence | A national action plan that sets out the progress made so far in tackling domestic violence and outlines future proposals to further improve support to victims and bring more perpetrators to justice. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/domesticviolence/domesticviolence51.htm |
| Home Office | National Community Safety Plan | The NCSP sets out the Government’s community safety priorities for 2006-2009. It outlines a new approach to community safety and aims to manage a coherent community safety programme across Government, providing people working in the field with a clear view of overall priorities. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/communitysafety01.htm |
| Home Office | Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships and Drug Action Team Integration/ Closer Working | This guidance issued in November 2003 outlines what measures CDRPs and DATs should take to integrate or work more closely together. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/integration.htm |
| Home Office | What Crime & Disorder Activities Fall Within the Remit of the Crime & Disorder Act 1998 | This weblink discusses what can date should be shared for crime & disorder purposes. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/toolkits/ui0307.htm |
| Home Office | The use of geographic information systems by crime analysts in England and Wales, HO Report 03/07 | This report presents findings from a survey to assess the extent to which GIS is used by crime analysts. | http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/rdsolr0307.pdf |
| Home Office | Toolkit for community safety audit | This toolkit on the Crime Reduction Website gives guidance on how to conduct a crime & disorder audit. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/toolkits/p031801.htm |
| Home Office | Crime Reduction Website - Routine Activity Theory | This website explains the theory behind RAT. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/learningzone/rat.htm |
| Home Office | Crime Reduction website - SARA model | This page on the CRW explains the SARA problem solving model with links for further information. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/learningzone/sara.htm |
| Home Office | Crime Reduction website - PROCTOR model | This page on the CRW explains the PROCTOR problem solving model with links for further information. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/skills/skills05.htm |
| Home Office | Crime Reduction Website - Passport to evaluation | This was devised by the Home Office. It looks at the basic techniques used to evaluate crime reduction projects. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/learningzone/passport_to_evaluation.htm |
| Home Office | Crime Reduction Website - Tilley Awards | The Tilley Award, funded by the Home Office, was set up in 1999 to encourage and recognise excellence in crime reduction using problem-oriented principles. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/tilley/tilleyawards2007.htm |
| Home Office | APACS - Assessment of Policing and Community Safety | This page on the Police Reform website has details of the new assessment framework for partnerships. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/performance-and-measurement/assess-policing-community-safety/ |
| Department for Transport (DfT) | Accessibility Planning: Guidance | Guidance for local authorities on dealing with accessibility planning as part of their Local Transport Plans. | http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/ltp/accessibility/guidance/gap/ |
| Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) | The RESPECT Handbook: A Guide for Local Services | Identifies the key principles that underpin the programme and the key features of service delivery to help meet the programme’s goals. Designed to help local implementation. | http://www.respect.go.uk/members/article.aspx?id=9764 |
| Every Child Matters | Information sharing guidance for children’s practitioners | This website provides useful guidance on info sharing for those professionals dealing with children. | http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/deliveringservices/informationsharing/ |
| National Probation Service (NPS) | Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) | Guidance on MAPPA, including statutory duties, MAPPA framework and good practice. | http://www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk/files/pdf/MAPPA%20Guidance.pdf |
| Ministry of Justice – Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) | Citizen Focus – A Practical Guide to Improving Police Follow-up with Victims and Witnesses | Provides practical advice on improving police performance provided to victims and witnesses. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/police-reform/CF-victimsandwitnesses.pdf |
| Ministry of Justice – National Offender Management Service | Civic Society Alliance Toolkit - Local Solutions to Reduce Re-offending by Adult and Young Offenders | A toolkit, showing how local authorities and local partners can develop a Civic Society Alliance to reduce re-offending. | http://www.lg-em.gov.uk/civicalliancetoolkit |
| Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the National Centre for Policing Excellence | Guidance on the management of police information (2006) | Guidance describing the processes that support the principles set out in the statutory code of practice on the management of police information developed by the Home Secretary under the Police Act 1996. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-and-publications/publication/operational-policing/Bichard_-_MoPI_Guidance_INT2.pdf?view=Binary |
| National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA) - Neighbourhood Policing Programme | Neighbourhood Policing Partnership Guide | Information for community safety partners on the Neighbourhood Policing Programme, including advantages of joint working and case studies. | http://www.neighbourhoodpolicing.co.uk/publication.asp |
| National Practitioner Panel for Community Engagement in Policing | Community Engagement in Policing Guide | This Guide has been developed as a resource for a cross section of policing practitioners. Supported by a database of effective practice. | http://www.communityengagement.police.uk/workspace/guide/index.htm |
| Local Government Association (LGA) | Neighbourhood by neighbourhood: local action to reduce re-offending | Report that outlines how local organisations with local knowledge are best placed to work with the prison and probation services to reduce re-offending. | http://www.lga.gov.uk/Publication.asp?lsection=59&id=SXEF07-A783DD34&ccat=946 |
| Local Government Association (LGA) | Partners against crime: a survey of local authority approaches to community safety | Results of a survey of authorities that took place in 2001, highlighting the community safety work that local authorities are doing and partnership working. Contains case studies. | http://www.lga.gov.uk/PublicationsList.asp?lsection=761&ccat=28& |
| Local Government Association (LGA) | Checklist for local authorities in domestic violence partnership working | Appropriately prioritising work to tackle domestic violence is crucial - this checklist aims to help local authorities, within partnerships, work effectively to do this. | http://www.lga.gov.uk/Publication.asp?lsection=59&id=SXF6DE-A7832FF7&ccat=967 |
| Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) | Joint working in waste: final report | Findings and recommendations from the project, which examined how joint working between authorities on waste management can achieve improved performance and drive efficiency. | http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/4821783 |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | NDC How-to-guides | Guidance on applying for NDC finance, developing delivery plans, gathering baseline information and evaluating outcomes and milestones. | http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/page.asp?id=619 |
| Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the National Centre for Policing Excellence | Guidance on the National Intelligence Model (2005) | Guidance on the NIM business model for law enforcement, which all forces in England and Wales are required to implement to national minimum standards. | http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/policies/Data/nim2005.pdf |
| Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the National Centre for Policing Excellence | Practice Advice on Tasking and Co-ordination (2006) | Guidance on tasking and co-ordination within the National Intelligence Model business process. | http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/policies/Data/TaskingandCo-ordination_inter_11.09.06.pdf |
| Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) | Practice Advice on Resources and the People Assets of NIM (2007) | Guidance on the roles of staff that work within intelligence units within the National Intelligence Model business process. | http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/policies/Data/resources_people_assets_nim_17x08x07.pdf |
| Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) | Practice Advice on Analysis (forthcoming) | Guidance on how and why analysis should be completed within the National Intelligence model. | http://www.acpo.police.uk/ |
| Audit Commission, National Audit Office (NAO), Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO), Wales Audit Office, Audit Scotland | Value For Money in public sector corporate services | A joint publication by the UK Public Sector Audit Agencies containing a set of performance indicators for managing and understanding the performance and value for money of public sector organisations’ Human Resources, Finance, Information and Communications Technology, Procurement and Estates functions. | http://www.public-audit-forum.gov.uk/performanceindictors.pdf |
| Audit Commission | Value for Money Toolkit (forthcoming) | A voluntary self-assessment web-based tool for partnerships to support improvement in financial management and value for money. | http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/ |
| Audit Commission | Know your Communities toolkit | This website has a self assessment on how well councils know their communities. | http://www.userfocus.audit-commission.gov.uk/KycHome.aspx |
| Audit Commission | Compiling neighbourhood profiles - a guide for local agencies | The purpose of this guide is to assist local agencies in: creating neighbourhood profiles under stage three of the five-stage framework for neighbourhood management of crime and anti-social behaviour; and reviewing current neighbourhood level activity and resource use to determine how to obtain better value for money (VFM). | http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/neighbourhoodcrime/profiling.asp |
| Home Office – Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) | CDRPs (CSPs) and LCJBs: How to work together | Guidance written for practitioners working in partnerships and LCJBs, highlighting those areas where both these local partnerships have common interests and suggesting ways in which they might work together. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/partnerships67.htm |
| Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) | Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) | The Information Commissioner’s Office is the UK’s independent authority set up to promote access to official information and to protect personal information by promoting good practice, ruling on eligible complaints, providing information to individuals and organisations, and taking appropriate action when the law is broken. The ICO enforces and oversees the Data Protection Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Environmental Information Regulations, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. |
http://www.ico.gov.uk/ |
| Department of Health (DoH) | Alcohol Misuse Interventions: Guidance on developing a local programme of improvement | Guidance on developing and implementing programmes that can improve the care of hazardous, harmful and dependent drinkers. | http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4123297 |
| NHS Wales | The Wales Accord for the Sharing of Personal Information (WASPI) | The purpose of this Accord is to enable service-providing and other organisations directly concerned with the well being of an individual to share information between them in a lawful and intelligent way. | http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/home.cfm?orgid=702 |
| Communities Scotland | National Standards for Community Engagement | The Communities Scotland website has a section on community engagement which contains standards for CE. | http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk |
| Ofsted | Tellus 2 surveys | This website offers information on Tellus2 surveys which can help to garner the views of young people. | http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/portal/site/Internet/ |
| The Centre for Problem-Oriented Policing | Website | A source of toolkits and guides about problem-oriented policing. | http://www.popcenter.org/ |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | Local Area Agreements | The CLG website has information on LAAs. | http://www.communities.gov.uk/localgovernment/performanceframeworkpartnerships/localareaagreements/ |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | Safer Stronger Communities Fund - Taking the agreements forward | This guidance explains the Safer Strong Communities Fund and how it feeds into LAAs. | http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/publications.asp?did=1545 |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | Safer Stronger Communities Fund - Indicators of Strong Communities | This document gives the indicators for strong communities. | http://www.neighbourhood.gov.uk/publications.asp?did=1567 |
White Papers and Strategies
| Source | Name | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Office | ‘Building Communities, Beating Crime’ White Paper (2004) | Police reform white paper published November 2004. | http://police.homeoffice.gov.uk/police-reform/white-paper.html/?version=4 |
| Home Office | Drug Strategy | Information on the Drug Strategy, which aims to reduce the harm that drugs cause to society: to communities, individuals and their families. | http://www.drugs.gov.uk/drug-strategy/ |
| Home Office | ‘Cutting Crime - a new partnership 2008 - 11’ | The Home Office crime strategy published July 2007. | http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/crime-strategy-07/ |
| Home Office | Review of the partnership provisions of the Crime & Disorder Act 1998 | The formal review of the CDA 1998 carried out in 2004-05. | http://crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/partnerships60.htm |
| Communities and Local Government (CLG) | ‘Strong and prosperous communities’ White Paper (2006) | Local government white paper published October 2006. | http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1503999 |
| Department of Health (DoH) | ‘Choosing Health’ White Paper (2006) | Local health white paper published November 2004. | http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4094550 |
| Cabinet Office | Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy | This strategy sets out the Government’s strategy for tackling the harms and costs of alcohol misuse in England. | http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy/downloads/su/alcohol/pdf/CabOffce%20AlcoholHar.pdf |
