Audit Strategy Delivery

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Audit - Strategy - Delivery Managing the
Process Robert Greaves National Community
Safety Network
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Audit Strategy Delivery

• Managing the Process

- Robert Greaves -
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• Organisation started in 1995
• National Practitioner Body
• 420 Members
• Home Office Support
• The Voice of Practitioners

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Wandsworth Context

• Population 271 000
• Crime lowest rate in inner-London 2003 / 2004
  (124.8 Total Offences / Thousand)
• Unitary authority
• MPS Area
• Government Office for London
• Partnership since 1987

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Wandsworth CDRP

• Board is Strategic, Senior Small
• Supported by Operational Group
• CDRP supports LSP
• CDRP, DAT and YOTSG cross-working

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2001 2002 Audit - What we faced

• Community Safety Manager vacancy
• Battle for resources
• Shortage of Police Analysts
• Community Safety lead
• Police contribution
• Health disengagement
• Public Interest

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2001 2002 Audit What we did

• Broad Audit
• Attitude Survey (1100)
• Informal Consultations (7000)
• Feedback to Consultees
• Publicised the Audit
• Publicised the Strategy
• Delivered Year III of 1999 2001 Strategy

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2001 2002 Audit What we learned

• Real consultation is labour-intensive
• People want real consultation
• Conflict between scientific and anecdotal
  consultation
• Information sharing needs investment
• People want to hijack the Strategy
• There is guidance and guidance

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2004 - 2005

• Has anything changed ?

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2004 2005 Audit - Yes

• Improved practitioner networks
• NCSN
• London Community Safety Forum
• Forums in North East and elsewhere
• Guidance more explicit but still late !!
• More people available with relevant skills
  experience

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2004 2005 Audit - Yes

• Requirement to merge or link with Drugs Strategy
• Requirement to include Anti-Social Behaviour
  Strategy
• New Statutory partners
• PCT
• Police Authority
• Fire Authority
• Regional Analysts

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2004 2005 Audit - Yes

• Drugs Market Mapping Study
• Scepticism about how much weight is given to
  Audit findings
• Debate about ownership of Task
• National Intelligence Model

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2004 2005 Audit - No

• Community Safety Manager in hospital
• Battle for resources
• Everyone assumes Council will fund all or most of
  the cost of the Audit
• Where is health ?
• Anecdotal, informal consultation largely excluded

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2004 2005 Audit Wandsworth Approach

• Chief Officer-led group for Crime Audit locally
• 2002 2005 Strategy (Year III)
• Best Value, Key Issues, Top Lines, BSC, BCU
• Section 17 other strategies (LSP etc.)
• Attitude Survey
• More restricted consultation
• Joint work Council and Police Analysts

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2004 2005 Audit

• What are we
• trying to do better
• this time ?

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2002 2004 Audit - Improvements

• Document the process better
• Reduce the number of detailed areas in the Audit
• Respond to the public more quickly
• Reduce the number of Strategic Objectives
• Factor in evaluation procedures and costs
• Contain cost of Audit (120,000 last time)

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• Is it easy ? NO
• Is it worth it ? YES

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Audit Strategy Process

• Telephone No. [phone]
• or visit the website
• www.community-safety.net