PARINS and Me

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PARINS and Me

• Linda Boys
• Neighbourhood Manager
• Stoke on Trent City Council

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• Early involvement
• Funding and positioning
• Task Groups
• A personal journey

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• Stephen Lawrence 22/4/93
• Pre 1997 Jude Hawes -CAB 3 caseworkers
• Frustration
• First meeting of minds
• September 1997, Community Safety
• Impending Crime and Disorder Act 1998
• Chief Superintendent Keith Perrin

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• Consultation on partnership structure
• New Commitment with Partners launched April 1998
• Community Consultation August Sept 1998,
  Priority Search
• Racial harassment as key priority

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• Funding - Locking in to mainstream (and dv)
• Logo
• Partnership
• Chair Keith Perrin, no we didnt name it after
  him!
• Jude Hawes
• Vince Simpson
• Mohammed Tufail
• Margaret Yates Housing Policy
• Paul Rushton
• Bill James, Graeme Drayton, Steve Loxley,
• Supt John Wood
• And me!

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• McPherson Inquiry Feb 1999
• Parins launch March 1999
• Crime and Disorder Act - statutory responsibility
  from April 1999, launched Potteries Shopping
  Centre May 1999
• And Section 17, housing, youth services etc

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• Role of Voluntary Sector embedded in the heart of
  the Community Safety Strategic Partnership
• At that time -no idea of the importance of that
  factor to the continuance of the organisation

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• A personal journey
• Middlesbrough
• Safer Cities and the Morgan Report
• Walsall, GOWM, DV, RH, mediation
• Sandwell DV, Med, RH in housing
• Stoke Partnership/ Strategy/ PARINS/ DV/
  mediation/ Refugees
• NACRO
• Stoke Youth Services, training, reporting,
  traineeships, PARINS/ REC
• Neighbourhood Management - Work with PARINS
  continues, Crime and Disorder Portfolio

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• The people
• The passion
• The persistence
• The purpose