Stronger Safer Gloucester Partnership
Stronger Safer Gloucester Partnership
Who we are
The Stronger Safer Gloucester Partnership (SSGP) is the strategic group bringing agencies together to work in partnership on the wider wellbeing, health and community safety agenda in the City of Gloucester.
Gloucester City has a history of strong and successful partnership working to drive forward positive changes in our communities and address issues affecting our residents. The SSGP builds on this, bringing together the people who have the ability, resources and commitment to make things happen.
As a partnership we are supportive and challenging in our work in order to link engagement, prevention and enforcement strands so that we can achieve better outcomes for all. We work collectively and use positive, community focussed problem solving in our work to shape our shared response to crime, anti-social behaviour, health and wellbeing trends across Gloucester.
Why do we have this partnership?
Community Safety Partnerships were first set up under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Councils have a legal duty to work with their local Police force to address crime and disorder in their area. Gloucester’s community safety partnership was previously known as Safer Gloucester.
In 2017 the partnership rebranded as the Stronger Safer Gloucester Partnership and widened it’s scope to include health and wellbeing. This is because we recognise that crime, health and wellbeing issues are often co-existing and can impact greatly on each other. Our partnership is built on the principle that no single agency can deal with, or be responsible for dealing with, complex community safety issues. These issues can be addressed more effectively and efficiently through working in partnership.
What does the SSGP do?
The SSGP focusses on work that we can only do together. We recognise the diversity of work that our member organisations do day to day, and we seek to build on that together. Each year we agree a set of priorities for our joint work; these are based on local knowledge, data trends and feedback from communities and practitioners.
Our priorities are split in to three categories: Protection, Prevention and Response. Key documents for the partnership are below:
SSGP annual review for 2018-19
Who is part of the partnership?
The SSGP is a multi agency group, comprising representatives from organisations across Gloucester including:
The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner
Gloucestershire County Council
Including Public Health commissioners and the county homelessness co-ordinator
Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue
Including Integrated Locality Partnerships and the Clinical Commissioning Group
Useful information
The work of the Stronger Safer Gloucester Partnership and its members is broad and diverse. Below are links to our partner agencies and key pieces of work:
Anti-social behaviour (Solace)
Asset Based Community Development
Safeguarding, children and adults
Safety in public spaces: purple flag, PSPOs
Street Aware