INTRODUCTION Mission Statement Our aim is to promote safer communities through the development of partnership working both internally and externally and to advise people to identify and take steps to increase their own safety and the safety of others.

Background

The Aberdeenshire Community Safety Partnership was established in 1998 and is one of 32 such partnerships in Scotland. Its membership currently comprises representatives from the Local Authority, Police Service, Fire and Rescue Service, NHS Grampian, Scottish Ambulance Service, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Voluntary Services and the Procurator Fiscal Service.

The partnership is responsible for delivering the community safety agenda within the Wellbeing theme as defined by Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership. As such the Community Safety Partnership provides a key focus for partner agencies in their planning and delivery of community safety.

Our Community Safety Partnership cannot work in isolation and we aim to align positively with other local strategies and plans, including community plans, social inclusion strategies, anti social behaviour plans and community regeneration plans.

Funding

The partnership has been allocated £118,813.26 annually as part of the Scottish Executive "Community Safety Partnership Award Programme" for 2005-2008. In addition the partnership will receive the following funding to implement and progress the joint Aberdeenshire Anti-social Behaviour Strategy 2005/6 £275,750, 2006/7 £320,000 and 2007/8 £335,000.

Monitoring and Evaluation

The partnership seeks continuous improvement in service delivery and has service level agreements with all project/ initiative managers where clear actions/interventions, inputs, outputs, outcomes and milestones have been agreed over the three year programme period from 2005-2008. The partnership will use the relevant figures from 2004 as their baseline to evaluate improvement.