NEATH PORT TALBOT COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL

Community Safety & Public Protection Scrutiny – Sub Committee

19th September 2019

Report of the Assistant Chief Executive and Chief Digital Officer

Mrs. Karen Jones

Matter for Monitoring

Wards Affected: All Wards

Report Title: Partnerships & Community Cohesion Quarterly Performance Indicators

Purpose of the Report:

To report the performance indicators for 1st April 2019 – 30th June 2019 (Quarter 1) for services within the purview of the Community Safety & Public Protection Scrutiny – Sub Committee

Executive Summary:

The following information highlights performance. Of the 11 indicators (including 2 corporate plan indicators), 7 report data for this period.

There are three indicators off track, which include:

CP/015 - % of schools that have adopted suitable programmes to address violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence (VAWDASV). It is currently each schools discretion as to whether to offer these lessons or not. Going forward the Relationship and Sexuality Education Sub Group of the VAWDASV Leadership Group will continue to work with partners to endeavour to achieve increased take-up, but this is not entirely in the control of the Community Safety team

CP/034 - % of incidents of domestic abuse where people are repeat victims – IDVA (Council) – highest risk victims. This is a complex matter as the explanation attached in Appendix 1 highlights. More analysis is underway to understand the reasons for repeat presentations, which included the complexity of need (mental health, domestic abuse, substance use, etc.), and the Community Safety & Public Protection Scrutiny – Sub Committee will be appraised of this as work develops. It is noteworthy that the complexity of need is matter of concern and has been escalated through the Community Safety Partnership to the Public Services Board.

A number of indicators are new this year, particularly those that relate to the Western Bay Area Planning Board Commissioning & Development Support Team. These are being baselined.

The remaining indicators were on target, including

PI/466 - Percentage of children and young people who have participated in a suitable programme that addresses VAWDASV - the Crucial Crew (organised by the Community Safety Team) event held in July 2019, 98.7% of year 6 children (1,608 out of 1626) took part in a suitable programme that address VAWDASV

PI/153 – Number of referrals of high risk victims to the IDVA service – in that new processes ensure that only appropriate (i.e. high risk referrals) are made to the team. This makes best use of a valuable resource and the specialist skills of the team.

Background:

Community Safety & Public Protection Scrutiny – Sub Committee is presented in appendix 1, with the performance for KPIs within its purview in respect of the Community Safety Team and Western Bay Commissioning & Development Team elements of the Partnerships & Community Cohesion section.

The following KPI status is utilised:

GREEN (green traffic light) - KPIs that have improved on or achieved target

AMBER (amber traffic light) - KPIs that have not achieved target but performance is within 5%

RED (red traffic light) - KPIs that are 5% or more below target

Where available, appendix 1 provide performance data for quarter 1 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and a quarter 1 target for 2019/2020. Performance indicators that are collected on an annual basis (and not included in appendix 1) will be included in the full year (quarter 4) performance report.

Financial Impacts:

The performance described in the report is being delivered against a challenging financial backdrop.

Integrated Impact Assessment:

There is no requirement to undertake an Integrated Impact Assessment as this report is for monitoring purposes.

Valleys Communities Impacts:

Neutral

Workforce Impacts:

The Council’s workforce continues to contract as financial resources continue to reduce. In recognition of the scale of change affecting the workforce, a new Corporate Workforce Plan has been developed to support the workforce to adapt to the changes that are taking place.

Legal Impacts:

This Report is prepared under:

The Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009 and discharges the Council’s duties to “make arrangements to secure continuous improvement in the exercise of its functions.

The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015

The Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council Constitution requires each cabinet committee to monitor quarterly budgets and performance in securing continuous improvement of all the functions within its purview.

Risk Management Impacts:

Failure to provide a suitable monitoring report within the timescales could lead to non-compliance with our Constitution. Also, failure to have robust performance monitoring arrangements in place could result in poor performance going undetected.

Other Impacts

The work of the Partnerships and Community Cohesion Section, as measured in this report have implications in respect of the following general duties

Crime and Disorder Impacts:

Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 places a duty on the Council in the exercise of its functions to have “due regard to the likely effect of the exercise of those functions on and the need to do all that it reasonably can to prevent:

Crime and disorder in its area (including anti-social and other behaviour adversely affecting the local environment); and

The misuse of drugs, alcohol and other substances in its area; and

Re-offending the area”

Counter Terrorism Impacts:

Section 26 of the Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a duty on specified authorities in the exercise of their functions to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.

Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Impacts:

Section 2(1) of the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 introduced a general duty where a person exercising relevant functions must have regard (along with all other relevant matters) to the need to remove or minimise any factors which —

(a) increase the risk of violence against women and girls, or

(b) exacerbate the impact of such violence on victims.

Consultation:

There is no requirement for external consultation on this item’

Recommendations:

For Members to monitor performance contained within this report.

Reasons for Proposed Decision:

Matter for monitoring. No decision required

Implementation of Decision:

Matter for monitoring. No decision required

Appendices:

Appendix 1: Partnerships & Community Cohesions Performance Indicators – Quarter 1 – 2019/20.

List of Background Papers:

None

Officer Contact:

Karen Jones, Assistant Chief Executive and Chief Digital Officer.

Telephone: 01639 763284. E-Mail: k.jones3@npt.gov.uk

Claire Jones, Strategic manager Partnerships & Community Cohesion

Telephone 01639 763193. E-Mail: s.c.jones@npt.gov.uk