Implications For The Auditing Process

Accessing data and information from local authority departments for the audit, should be much easier if there is an acceptance and understanding of Section 17. If Section 17 is taken seriously, departments will need to collect the kind of information for their own purposes that will be used for the audit, for instance, truancy rates or housing stock damage.

To ensure compliance with Section 17, the crime and disorder audit should contain a review of policy and practice including:

• Review of current strategy and work of crime and disorder partnership.

• Section 17 review.

• Review of other plans.

• Statement about how the audit will take forward Section 17 (and vice versa).

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