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*** October's bulletin begins ***

In this month's bulletin we seem to have something of a communities special, with a number of helpful new practical guidance documents being published to increase community engagement and make neighbourhood renewal easier.

Communities

We've seen several documents published this month on the topics of neighbourhoods and community cohesion. ODPM have published a pair of guides on building communities. Building Community Cohesion is aimed at residents and community leaders and provides them with a set of easy to understand guidelines on building their community. Facilitating Community Involvement is aimed more at policy-makers and deals provides 'what works' information and a guide to barriers to community involvement

• Building Community Cohesion: A guide

• Facilitating community involvement

Also published by ODPM, the Neighbourhood Renewal Assessment Manual provides a 10-point program to help practitioners decide on the best type of project to improve neighbourhood renewal, and how to implement this project effectively.

• Neighbourhood Renewal Assessment Manual 2004

The Home Office has published an evaluation of Community Support Officers and specifically the effectiveness of their power to detain suspects for up to 30 minutes pending the arrival of a police officer.

• CSO Pilot Evaluation

In addition to these new publications, the community training pack Crime Reduction Basics has been made available in a range of languages: Arabic, Chinese, Gujerati, Hindi, Hungarian, Punjabi, Urdu and Welsh.

• Crime Reduction Basics

Working with offenders

Information on the 'Prevent and Deter' strand of the Priority & Prolific Offenders Strategy was published at the end of September. You can find out more about this and the rest of the PPO programme at the address below.

• Priority & Prolific Offenders Strategy update

Also published this month is an evaluation of the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme by the Youth Justice Board. The programme deals with the most serious and persistent young offenders and aims to reduce the level and seriousness of their re-offending by a combination of monitoring and structured activities.

• Evaluation of ISSP

Journals

• Crime Reduction News (September 2004)

• Crime Reduction Centre Digest (October 2004)

Other material

• Progress Report on LSPs in Neighbourhood Renewal Fund areas

• Connected round 2

• Business Crime Postcards

• Stalking: An investigators guide

• Graffiti removal consultation

• Crime in England & Wales quarterly update

Discussion Forum

Topics discussed this month on the CRW Discussion Forum include

• Sponsorship or funding a beat officer

• Theft of laptops from parked cars

• Crime hotspots - warning notices

• ASB from private residence

• False burglary complaints

The Discussion Forum is available to all crime and disorder reduction practitioners. To register, visit the Forum

Stuart Charman

Crime Reduction Website Manager

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www.crimereduction.gov.uk/

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Tel: 01347 825064

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Last update: 28 October 2004