Agreeing Priorities
Your Partnership will need to consider what it is going to do about the identified
repeat victimisation problems.
It is unhelpful to view repeat victimisation in isolation. It is a tool for understanding
the nature of particular crime problems in order to design more effective responses.
This means that a repeat victimisation problem may have emerged in the analysis of,
for example, high levels of car crime or racial crime. Dealing with the repeat victimisation
aspect will need to take its place in an overarching strategy for dealing with these
crimes. Generally high levels of a particular crime, regardless of how far repeat
victimisation contributes to these levels, will make that crime a priority. However,
it is worth checking on repeat victimisation even for low level crimes: repeat victimisation
may account for most of the crime, but there may be a relatively simple and effective
response, which will reduce that level.
Drafting the Partnership's response to repeat victimisation problems should take
account of individual agencies' own service objectives. Strategies, which incorporate
or complement the objectives of key partners, enabling them to work in partnership
to achieve their own goals, are more likely to succeed. This will promote a shared
understanding of repeat victimisation problems and provide useful information for
developing and integrating other plans.
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Development of Other Local Plans
Although the primary purpose of the data analysis is to assist in developing strategies
to tackle repeat victimisation, it can also provide useful information for developing
consistent and complementary plans, including:
Behaviour Support Plan
Children’s Services Plan
Community Care Plan
Drug Action Plan
Quality Protects
Health Improvement Plan
Housing Strategies
Local Performance Plans
Local Policing Plans
Local Transport Plan
Probation Service Business Plan
Social Inclusion Partnership Plans (e.g. SRBs, New Deal for Communities, Youth
Inclusion Plans, Health & Education Action Zone Plans, Regeneration Plans)
Urban Development Plans
Youth Justice Plans
Internal corporate & business plans
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Key partners should also be encouraged to incorporate the partnership's goals in
relation to tackling repeat victimisation into their own service plans. They will
then be in a better position to identify their own specific contribution to the work
of the partnership.
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