Home Office Good Practice Seminars
Partnership Working Seminar
Workshop 3
CDRP, DAT, YOT: Working Together
Jo Mulkerrin and Tamsin Lees, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Community Safety Partnership
Main points from the workshop
The Crime and Disorder Act does not make any requirement for county co-ordination of district strategies, only at Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) level. It is up to the individual partners to decide if this should happen.
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (IOS) is made up of 7 CDRPs. These partnerships have developed a county-wide structure made up from representatives of each CDRP.
This county structure has combined aims and objectives and 'pooled funding' as each of the 7 CDRPs contribute a 40% top slice of their funding per year.
This structure has been developed over about a year despite Cornwall and IOS being a two-tier authority.
This structure has no legal standing as legally there are 7 CDRPs, each having to provide an audit, strategy etc, despite the county structure being seen as 'best practice'.
The different agendas of CDRPs, Drug Action Teams and Youth Offending Teams add to the culture of the county structure and can minimise a duplication of effort.
Maybe this has worked because of the unique structure of the region (i.e. only 1 police Basic Command Unit in Cornwall).
Such partnership was felt down to the personalities of several significant partners, group agreed that personalities (particularly at Chief Constable and Chief Executive level).
Government priorities also affect partnership working especially for the police where Government priorities can have an implication on where resources can be deployed.
Theoretically it should be easier for unitary authorities to develop a countywide structure.
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Last update: 16/02/04