Safer Communities Initiative
Introduction to the Safer Communities Initiative
The Safer Communities Initiative provided £20M for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships to tackle crime and disorder in their area to meet national crime reduction targets and other local priorities.
All 376 Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships were allocated a share of the £20m funding. The allocations for each partnership is given below.
The Safer Communities Initiative was conceived as a framework for providing CDRPs with funding to supplement mainstream activity to deliver a complementary activity plan of situational and social crime reduction interventions. This programme was seen by the Home Office as taking forward Partnerships’ audits and strategies for 2002 - 2003.
The SCI moved away from the competitive bidding rounds of the Crime Reduction Programme. The intention being to provide a flexible way of partnerships addressing both local and national crime reduction priorities. The Crime Reduction Teams in the regions in England and the Crime Reduction Team in the National Assembly for Wales worked in support of partnerships, identifying priorities for expenditure, and quality assuring SCI activity plans. Partnerships were asked to focus on crime hotspots, repeat victims and repeat offenders.
Partnerships had the flexibility to spend SCI funding on revenue or capital items.
The Safer Communities Initiative (SCI) was provided for Partnerships to:
deliver a complementary activity plan of situational and social crime reduction interventions, based on what works and which secure the maximum impact on crime reduction outcomes.
deliver a range of activities which is aligned with, and complementary to, the Communities Against Drugs programme and has robust links with Neighbourhood Renewal funding.
build the capacity required to deliver strategies successfully, and lever in other sources of funding.
The funding was allocated to Crime and Disorder Partnerships using a funding formula based on recorded crime (80%) and an even split (20%). Each partnership was allocated some funding with the likelihood of more funding in subsequent years. Partnerships were able to plan on the basis that they would receive at least the same again in 2003 - 2004.
Full details of the initiative are given in Home Office Circular 14/2002. Click on the links below to download the circular and its annexes
Home Office Circular 14/2002: The Safer Communities Initiative 2002-3
This is the main document introducing the scheme and detailing it for the year 2002-3
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Home Office Circular 14/2002 in PDF format 
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Annex A: Joint Programme Management Guidance
This provides administrative guidance for Crime and Disorder Partnerships and Drug Action Teams on the Safer Communities Initiative (SCI), the Communities Against Drugs programme (CAD), and the Small Retailers in Deprived Areas (SRDA) initiative. A separate Home Office Circular will be issued setting out guidance on the Communities Against Drugs programme in 2002 - 2003, soon.
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Annex B: Cover Sheet
This is the title page for the allocations detailed in the funding tables, but does not contain any additional information. It is included here only for completeness for those wishing to print a complete set of data.
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Annex B: Funding Tables
The funding allocations for the financial year 2002-3 are given in the following table. Click on the links below to download the allocations
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Annex C: Grant Conditions
The purpose of this document is to make explicit the conditions of grant attached to the payment of funds for the Safer Communities Initiative.The document should be read in conjunction with Home Office Circular 14/2002and the administrative guidance.
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Annex D: Contact Details
The final annex lists the contact details for Crime Reduction Directors in England & Wales. These contact details are also available online.
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Further Details
The funding stream for this initiative has now been superseded by the Building Safer Communities (BSC) Fund.
Click here for further BSC information
Last update: Thursday, June 12, 2008