Community Safety Partnership
Bolton’s Community Safety Partnership has a statutory duty to bring together local partners and join forces to formulate and deliver strategies to reduce crime, tackle antisocial behaviour and make the borough a safer place.
Agencies that form this partnership include:
- Bolton Council
- Greater Manchester Police
- GMCA Police & Crime Team
- Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service
- Probation
- Greater Manchester NHS Integrate Care Partnership
- Youth Justice
- Housing Providers, and
- The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sectors
The Bolton Community Safety Partnership undertakes a strategic assessment that considers the reports and impact of crime and antisocial behaviour across the borough.
This assessment is used to identify the crime and disorder priorities for the Community Safety Partnership and informs the development of a delivery plan to address these concerns.
The three main priorities included within the Community Safety Delivery Plan 2023 – 2026 are:
Keep People Safe
- Ensuring there are effective partnership problem solving approaches to address neighbourhood crime and ASB.
- Developing a strong partnership disruption model for exploitation, organised crime and modern slavery
- Delivery of the Domestic Abuse & Violence Strategy
- Developing a coordinated approach to the Gendered Based Abuse Strategy (Violence Against Women & Girls).
Reduce Harm and Offending
- Increasing support to offenders with access to housing, training and employment, financial aid, debt recovery and drugs and alcohol service.
- Enforcing against persistent and prolific offenders who misuse drugs and alcohol.
- Continue to provide support for young people who are involved in offending and reduce first time entrants to the criminal justice system.
- Working in partnership to disrupt and prevent serious and organised crime to reduce the impact of its resulting social harms on communities and residents.
Strengthen Communities and Places
- Empowering our communities to feel safe via effectively communicating our work to continue to improve public confidence and community cohesion.
- Support the VCSE sector in developing and building communities, supported by the Bolton Fund and the community safety investment into this fund.
We work across Greater Manchester to ensure plans and opportunities to collaborate are as strong as they can be.
We have a strong working relationship with the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner, and we support the delivery of the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Plan.