Responsible service

Enterprise and Communities 

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Community Regeneration Unit

What is the policy/strategy/function/ trying to achieve / do?    

The Community Safety Strategy vision is to:

Make North Lanarkshire a better place to live, work and visit through integrated partnership working to build strong, inclusive, vibrant, engaged communities, where homes, workplaces, and public spaces are safe and feel safe for everyone to prosper. 

The strategy sets out the plan for the council and its partners to help achieve this aim through five strategic priorities and a range of corresponding actions.

If this is a budget saving, how will the saving be achieved?

N/A.

If this policy is subject to the Fairer Scotland Duty what does it suggest about the impact or potential impact on socio-economic disadvantage? 

Yes, the policy is subject to the FSD as the actions contained within the strategy have an impact on socio- economic disadvantage. As the Community Safety Strategy contains a broad range of actions which span across a number of different areas, many of the actions have an indirect impact on socio-economic disadvantage but nonetheless a significant indirect impact through improving people’s life circumstances and opportunities through the creation of safer communities in which people can thrive and prosper and can achieve their full potential.

Give details of the impact it has on groups and individuals

The Community Safety Strategy has a positive impact on all individuals who share a protected characteristic through the range of actions outlined in the strategy that aim to help people be and feel safe within their communities. It has a particularly positive impact for protected characteristics of age, disabled people, people from an ethnic minority background, sexuality, people of different religions or beliefs through targeted hate crime interventions.

What actions / measures will be put in place or are planned to mitigate any adverse impact or promote equality?

There are no adverse impacts identified in relation to the Community Safety Strategy. There is currently no overall all-encompassing strategy in place which provides an overview and plan for the various inter-connected strands of community safety. This strategy provides a framework for which all the various community safety strands can be considered in a holistic way to enable partners to respond collectively to better meet the needs of individuals and communities (which are often related and cannot be resolved by one particular service or intervention).

What is the result/ recommendations of the Equality Impact Assessment?

To introduce the strategy following approval at committee.