Agreeing Priorities
Your Partnership will need to meet and discuss the key findings of the Audit.
It will then need to consider what it is going to do about the problems.
Each of the key partners, including the police, local authority, fire service probation,
health authority local victim support and race equality councils will be devising
their own strategic plans with objectives and targets. Some of these targets will
have been guided by national strategies and others will be planned in response to
locally identified needs.
Drafting the Partnership's response to tackling racist crime and harassment should
take account of individual agencies' own service objectives, (e.g. policing plan objectives
for reductions in crime or disorder or fire service objectives for reducing arson).
Strategies, which incorporate or complement the objectives of key partners, enabling
them to work in partnership to achieve their own goals, are more likely to succeed.
This will promote a shared understanding of the problems associated with racially
motivated crime and harassment and provide useful information for developing and integrating
other plans. See below
Development of other local plans
Although the primary purpose of the audit is to assist in developing strategies
to tackle racist incidents, it can also provide useful information for developing
consistent and complementary plans, including:
Behaviour Support Plan
Children’s Services Plan
Community Care Plan
Drug Action Plan
Quality Protects
Health Improvement Plan
Housing Strategies
Local Performance Plans
Local Policing Plans
Local Transport Plan
Probation Service Business Plan
Social Inclusion Partnership Plans (e.g. SRBs, New Deal for Communities, Youth
Inclusion Plans, Health & Education Action Zone Plans, Regeneration Plans)
Urban Development Plans
Youth Justice Plans
Internal corporate & business plans e.g. Victim Support; Council for Racial
Equality
Key partners should also be encouraged to incorporate the partnership's goals in
relation to tackling racist incidents into their own service plans, taking account
of the audit findings for their service. They will then be in a better position to
identify their own specific contribution to the work of the partnership. This will
assist Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships in complying with s17 of the Crime
& Disorder Act, which requires partner agencies to review the community safety implications
of their work.
It is incumbent on each agency to come to a partnership or inter-agency task group
meeting outlining:
The Group as a whole can then consider the resulting agenda, looking at:
areas of agreement & disagreement
what is known about effective practice in tackling racist incidents and/or
racist offending behaviour
agree priorities for action
After the meeting individual partners will need to endorse the agreed priorities.
The agreed priorities should be specific to addressing racist incidents and/or
racist behaviour.
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