Community safety

Community safety is not just an issue for police and fire and rescue authorities. Councils contribute in a variety of ways. 

These include work carried out through community safety partnerships in:

• emergency planning – ensuring that plans are in place to deal with emergency situations such as flooding, heavy snow and ice, civil unrest or terrorist incidents
• regulation, licensing and trading standards –  such as alcohol and entertainment licenses to help maintain public order, food hygiene certification for businesses to prevent food poisoning
• contributing to anti-social behaviour strategies through a range of council services including lighting, street cleansing, planning and leisure
• new governance arrangements for policing and crime strategies including the introduction of police and crime commissioners and police and crime panels
• Peer challenges – We have completed 26 Safer communities peer challenges (CSPs). Its central aim is to help community safety partners improve how they deliver outcomes to make local communities safer, drawing on the experience of peers and the best practice in the sector.
  You can find out more about our peer challenges here:
  
  Safer communities peer challenge