‘Halton Together Panel’

 

Themed meeting – Safe & Attractive

 

Thursday 2nd September 2004

At Sefton House, Runcorn

 

Present

Chris Walsh – Halton Amputee Self Help (HASH), Bill Edwards – Windmill Hill Community Forum, Mike Shepherd – Murdishaw Community Forum, Shelagh Kearney – The Four Estates

 

In Attendance

K Parkes – HVA,

 

Apologies

Louise Tanner – Groundwork Mersey Valley, Norman Lloyd – Streets Ahead, Glenice Bagley – Halton Carers Umbrella

 

This was the first of the sub group themed meetings and was called to look at the general format of the group.

 

·               Name – it was discussed that calling the group Safe & Attractive is already leading to confusion.  Members were asked to consider suitable names

·               Frequency of meetings – it was agreed that the meetings should be scheduled to feed into the SSP meetings.  The partnership meets every two months so it was decided that the themed group should meet at least one month before this date to enable members to ask for items to be included on the agenda and feed any issues into the chair/co-ordinator.  There was confusion about the date of the next meeting so Kath will confirm this with Karen Marcroft.

·               Timing of meetings – best time for members is 10am

·               Aims and objectives were briefly agreed as:

o       Mechanism to feed information into the partnership

o       Mechanism to receive feedback to disseminate to the borough

o       Means of providing the partnership with a comprehensive listing of groups able to commission pieces of work

o       Means of influencing the priorities to target for NRF

 

It was agreed that the group will adopt full terms of reference at a later date.

 

The objectives of the partnership were outlined as:

·               Investigating and tackling the underlying causes of crime in Halton         

·               Ensuring environmental improvements take place in all areas of the borough

·               Reducing incidents of youth related crime and disorder

·               Creating a safer living environment in Halton, reassuring the community and reducing the fear of crime

 

 

The funding currently in place was allocated by the LSP.  The new round of funding is available from April 05 and no decisions have yet been made about this allocation so it is an ideal time to become more involved in the process and influence change.

 

Both Mike and Bill (the S&A SSP reps) confirmed that they were very confused about meetings.  They were not even sure which of the meetings was the SSP and which were sub groups.  Kath agreed to meet with Karen Marcroft and Diane Young (co-ordinator) to clarify and she will then circulate the information

 

Date/time next meeting:   TBA