The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (SLP) forms part of the overarching Lincolnshire response to Safeguarding, Public Protection and Community Safety, and sits alongside:
- The Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children's Partnership (LSCP)
- Lincolnshire Safeguarding Adults Board (LSAB)
- The Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership (LDAP)
- The Lincolnshire Drug and Alcohol Partnership
All within the Lincolnshire County Councils Adult Care and Community Wellbeing Directorate.
The Crime and Disorder Act (1998) made it a requirement for all local authorities to have in place a Community Safety Partnership (CSP). Changes to this legislation were brought in by the Police and Justice Act 2006 and subsequent regulations came in to force in 2007. The regulations set out the minimum requirements for partnership working to ensure effective practice and that all partnerships deliver to a common standard.
In Lincolnshire the CSP is known as the 'Safer Lincolnshire Partnership' (SLP).
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (SLP) helps to improve community safety.
It aims to:
- reduce crime and disorder and increase the safety across Lincolnshire
- ensure those living, working or visiting Lincolnshire feel safe
- improve communication, and coordination between agencies
The work of the SLP involves tackling:
- anti-social behaviour
- reducing reoffending
- crime and disorder
- substance misuse
- serious violence
Its duties are to:
- set up protocols and systems for information sharing
- implement a plan to reduce offending and combat substance misuse
- engage and consult with communities and address their priorities
- hold one or more public meeting during each year
- commission Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership is constituted of a large number of organisations and experts across the county including the following key agencies:
- Boston Borough Council
- City of Lincoln Council
- Crown Prosecution Service
- East Lindsey District Council
- Futures4Me
- HM Courts Services
- HM/YOI Prison Lincoln
- HM Prison North Sea Camp
- Lincoln University
- Lincolnshire Action Trust
- Lincolnshire County Council
- Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue
- Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Lincolnshire Police
- Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner
- Lincolnshire Public Health
- Lincolnshire Probation Service
- North Kesteven District Council
- South Holland District Council
- South Kesteven District Council
- West Lindsey District Council
The Police and Crime Commissioner is not a statutory member of CSP's but does provide funding for each of them to help achieve their own objectives and those in the Commissioner's Police and Crime Plan.
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership engages with a variety of other specialist organisations in order to address its core priorities for example service providers and specialist within the health sector, voluntary and community sector.