Decision details

To approve receipt of Crime and Disorder Reduction Funding - Supporting Communities Funding 25/26

Decision Maker: Corporate Director

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

To receive £45,000 grant from the Police Crime Commissioner. The funding will help to support the Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan by enabling partners to listen to and work with the public to act on their concerns and support them to assist themselves.  

This funding will help to build the capacity and capability of Community Safety Partnerships to deal with the local issues of crime and disorder which matter most to people who live and work in the area. This will bolster the resources available to co-ordinate the efforts of all agencies to deliver local problem solving.

 

This work is embedded through the statutory Community Safety Partnership that the council has duties to deliver.

 

The decision authorises officers (Service and Finance) to sign the attached grant agreement from the Police Crime Commissioner

 

Decision

 

Dan Horn, Assistant Director and Peter Catchpole Corporate Director & Section 151 to sign the attached grant agreement from the Police Crime Commissioner to receive £45,000 to deliver “Crime and Disorder Reduction Funding - Supporting Communities Funding 25/26

Reasons for the decision:

FDC Business Plan:

 

Work with partners to keep people safe in their neighbourhoods by reducing crime & antisocial behaviour and promoting social cohesion

  • Manage the Community Safety Partnership to reduce crime, hate crime and anti-social behaviour.
  • Support the Fenland Diverse Communities Forum to deliver the Fenland-wide Community Cohesion Action Plan.
  • Deliver the Community Safety Grant Agreement with the Police and Crime Commissioner

Alternative options considered:

Not applicable

Publication date: 11/03/2025

Date of decision: 07/03/2025

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