Issue - meetings

This report introduces the three year Community Safety Strategy for York and asks the Executive to note its content and the role City of York Council has as a key partner in its delivery.

Recommended:

                      i.         Recommended to Full Council for approval in accordance with the Council’s Constitution;

Resolved:

                    ii.         Approved the content of the strategy which identifies the key role that City of York Council plays in its delivery;

Reason:    To progress the strategy to approval at Full Council and note the Council’s role in delivery of the strategy.

The Director of Environment, Transport and Planning introduced the report. He outlined that there was a statutory requirement to have a strategy in place. He explained that the strategy was a multi-agency approach and outlined the Council’s responsibility and how it would work with partners and stakeholders.

The Executive Member for Housing, Planning and Safer Communities thanked everyone in the Safer York Partnership for their work developing the strategy. He outlined that the partnership had a wide-ranging remit and operated across York. He welcomed the move to a performance framework within the strategy which would allow greater reporting and monitoring of performance within the work of the partnership.

Recommended:

                        i.          Recommended to Full Council for approval in accordance with the Council’s Constitution;

Resolved:

                      ii.          Approved the content of the strategy which identifies the key role that City of York Council plays in its delivery;

Reason:    To progress the strategy to approval at Full Council and note the Council’s role in delivery of the strategy.