The Safer Essex partnership provides the strategic lead for community safety in Essex, Thurrock and Southend. They oversee the response to community safety issues and initiatives.
Our aims
Safer Essex brings together partner organisations and stakeholders. We all work together to deliver the following community safety outcomes:
- prevent crime and anti-social behaviour
- prevent fires from happening
- understand and tackle hate crime
- understand and tackle violence, including violence against women and girls
- improve community confidence in the multi-agency response to community safety issues
- continue to deliver effective Community Safety Hubs across Greater Essex
What we do
To meet our aims and responsibilities, Safer Essex:
- oversees and coordinates community safety activity across Greater Essex
- carries out a high-level, overarching county-wide Strategic Assessment, which brings together local assessments
- develops a county-wide Community Safety Agreement, in alignment with the priorities developed by local community safety partnerships and other strategic partnerships
- raises awareness of current and planned activities of Community Safety Partnerships and networks and identifies opportunities for added value
- shares information and learning to improve community safety.
- ensures awareness and understanding of new legislation and initiatives.
- works with other boards, sharing information and complementing their work and agendas.
- scrutinises progress in delivering all five assets within the Crime Prevention Strategy
- provides the governance for assets 4 and 5 within the Crime Prevention Strategy
- supports the delivery of the “Live Safe” workstream within the Essex Fire Prevention Strategy
Contact Safer Essex
For more information contact the Safer Essex team at community.safety@essex.gov.uk.