Community Safety Fund
In the current financial year (2020/21) the PCC has a community safety budget of £3.039 million, of which £2.735 million has been given in grants to county and unitary councils in the Thames Valley area, and £0.3 million has been retained by the Office of the PCC (OPCC) to fund force-wide initiatives.
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2019/20 £ |
2020/21 £ |
Bracknell |
136,091 |
136,091 |
Bucks CC |
441,082 |
441,082 |
Milton Keynes |
261,694 |
261,694 |
Oxon CC |
693,923 |
693,923 |
Reading |
457,814 |
457,814 |
Slough |
335,938 |
335,938 |
West Berkshire |
155,864 |
155,864 |
Windsor & Maidenhead |
148,921 |
148,921 |
Wokingham |
104,205 |
104,205 |
|
|
|
Retained by PCC |
303,948 |
303,948 |
|
|
|
Total |
3,039,479 |
3,039,479 |
The attached grant agreements show how each local authority will use their allocation to improve community safety:
- Bracknell
- Buckinghamshire
- Milton Keynes
- Oxfordshire
- Reading
- Slough
- West Berkshire
- Windsor & Maidenhead
- Wokingham
2019/20
In 2019/20 the PCC had a community safety budget of £3.0 million, of which £2.7 million was given in grants to county and unitary councils in the Thames Valley area, and £0.3 million was retained by the Office of the PCC (OPCC) to fund force-wide initiatives. The local authorities used their grant allocations to deliver the following services:
- Youth offending including youth restorative justice, intervention work with young offenders and participation in youth crime prevention projects: £814,810
- Substance misuse including Drug Alcohol Action Team services, substance misuse treatment provision, awareness raising and education: £571,758
- Domestic abuse (DA) including outreach support, Independent Domestic Violence Advocates, DA champions, awareness raising campaigns to improve reporting and access to support, and needs assessments: £485,646
- Tackling re-offending through improvement of take up of accommodation, employment and education: £112,532
- Earlier intervention and prevention with young people, including programmes in schools, targeted local youth work, safeguarding and diversionary activities: £296,022
- Local Community Safety service provisions to maintain and improve local problem solving and multi-agency work around crime and anti-social behaviour reduction: £206,930
- Programmes and events that take place with and in community settings to improve wellbeing and safety in local areas: £62,387
- Tackling hidden harms including modern slavery, exploitation and vulnerable adults without support networks: £85,973
- Specific anti-social behaviour targeted work: £80,503
- Other crime prevention activities such as improved analysis of crime trends, training of professionals, drugs dogs, responses to specific rural crimes and burglaries: £40,204
The £0.3 million retained by the OPCC has been used for:
- Grant funding for reducing re-offending projects: £49,755
- Grant funding for youth, gangs and exploitation projects: £44,810
- Grant funding for an elder abuse project: £30,012
- Contribution to GPS tagging project: £25,000
- Contribution to the Local Criminal Justice Board: £25,000
- Contribution to Early Intervention Youth Fund projects: £83,732
- Other expenditure includes contributions to Crimestoppers, the Modern Slavery helpline and Modus software