Community Safety Partnerships in Scotland: A relic of the past or a necessity for the future? A comparative case study analysis (2022)

Community Safety Partnerships in Scotland: A relic of the past or a necessity for the future? A comparative case study analysis – Prabhkaran Singh, 2022 A recently published Masters dissertation by Prabhkaran Singh taking an in depth look at the extent to which community safety partnerships have or can continue to have a real local…

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Community Safety Partnership Resource

  We are delighted to share with you our Community Safety Partnership Resource Pack. The Scottish Community Safety Network (SCSN) contacted Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) across Scotland to request information on their governance, structure, membership and partnership arrangements. From this request, we collected data from a sample of around a third of CSPs in Scotland,…

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Learning Report | SCSN thinking about climate change & community safety

In light of the COP26 global event in Glasgow, and the impact of climate change becoming ever more apparent across Scotland the UK, SCSN facilitated a workshop, to identify how climate change might affect community safety. On Tuesday 19 October 2021, SCSN hosted and facilitated a 2-hour online workshop. Over 30 people attended from a…

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Community Safety Research: Main Street Consulting (2021)

Community Safety Research: Main Street Consulting (2021) Final reports (including a summary report) for four research projects we commissioned from MainStreet Consulting around Community Safety earlier this year. These projects built on previous research into the emerging landscape and future opportunities for Community Safety.   The four projects focussed on: Describing the components of a…

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Developing a Community Safety Narrative for Scotland

SCSN were delighted to have Tricia Spacey seconded to work between SCSN and the Scottish Government from late 2018 into early 2019. We are now equally delighted to publish her report: Developing a Community Safety Narrative for Scotland. Introduction What is meant by community safety, or safer communities, has broadened over the years, and the…

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Information Sharing Protocol Template

This template provides Community Safety Partnerships and other multi-agency partnerships with a ready-to-use framework for establishing a formal Information Sharing Protocol. It sets out the key principles underpinning information sharing, the general purposes for which information may be shared, partner responsibilities and commitments, and arrangements for governance, monitoring and review. The template is designed to…

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Using Intelligence Data: A guide for partnerships

Information sharing is key to the delivery of better, more efficient public services that are coordinated around the needs of communities and individuals. It is essential to direct early intervention and preventative work, and to effectively tackle local community safety issues and safeguard individuals. The sharing of data and intelligence is key to Community Safety…

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