Decision details

The Service Director for Leisure, Culture and Community Wellbeing presented a report seeking approval to establish a new Community Safety Coordinator role within the Community Safety Service.

A recent analysis of demand for service had established the need for additional staff resources to enable the council’s Community Safety Service to continue to positively manage Anti-Social Behaviour, contribute to community safety partnership activities, and coordinate enforcement and education interventions.

The new role would be funded through the council’s Housing Revenue Account (HRA). This was because a substantial proportion of the new Community Safety Coordinators role would involve interaction with tenants, and investigation of complaints relating to anti-social behaviour on the council’s housing estates.  

*RESOLVED

1.   That a new Community Safety Coordinator post be approved and introduced within the Council’s Community Safety Service.

REASONS FOR DECISION

1.   The effective management of community safety issues and anti-social behaviour (ASB) will support the Council to deliver on it’s priority to make Chesterfield a thriving borough and improve the quality of life for local people.

2.   The Council recently introduced a new ASB strategy which incorporates as key principles the merits of problem solving, prevention, early intervention, and proactive engagement. It is important therefore that the Community Safety Service has the capacity and capability to effectively manage demand, both current and future; to maximise the opportunities from internal and external partnering and collaboration, and to support the delivery of the new ASB strategy and the new Council Plan 2023-2027.

3.   The new additional Community Safety Co-ordinator role will add critical capacity to the Community Safety Service Team, enabling the staff to intervene at an early stage and tackle community based ASB issues across multiple tenures.