The Panel survey on making the borough safer focussed on gaining a better understanding of what would make Panel members feel safe and gain an insight into Panel members’ experiences of crime and antisocial behaviour as a witness and/or victim. This survey is a repeat of a similar survey conducted in 2022 and benchmarks against the previous results to identify changes in opinions, attitudes, and experiences.
The Community Safety Team and the Safer K and C Partnership are continuing to carefully consider the full results from the Panel survey with the year-on-year results being used to identify any trends and to monitor progress against the action plans developed from the Community Safety Plan. This year the Safer K and C Partnership will be forming its response to Serious Violence as part of a new legal duty. These responses will help to inform the partnership’s response to violence in the borough alongside needs analysis and other ongoing community engagement work. The full report also identified any differences in opinion by key demographics (sex, age, and ethnicity) and by the area of the borough that Panel members live in. This feedback will be used to target resources, commissioning work, communication and awareness raising to ensure to maximise their effectiveness. The comparison to last year’s results helps to understand changes in local feelings of safety and the results will also enable the Community Safety Team to identify where within the borough to focus additional safety measures and environmental improvements, whilst also informing the Council’s antisocial behaviour response borough wide.
You have consistently told us that community safety is one of your top priorities and making the borough safer again emerged as a key theme from the recent Let's Talk K&C consultation used to develop the Council Plan. We previously sought your views to inform the current Community Safety Plan and action plans. We now want to seek your views again to monitor progress and to see if there has been any shift in your attitudes and experiences. This will build on the benchmarks set in the previous Panel survey.
This is an important opportunity to get beyond crime statistics to better understand what makes you feel unsafe in the borough and to gain insight into your experiences of crime and antisocial behaviour. This will enable us to more effectively target our resources and actions to make the borough safer for all.
To thank you, and in recognition of your time, all those that complete a survey will be entered into a prize with a chance to win one of two £50 Amazon vouchers. We will also make a donation to charity for each completed survey.
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