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Sarah Conway, Chair of the Safer Communities Partnership Board, thank you all very much for attending our meeting this morning. Please note that the meeting may be recorded and broadcast by people present, as allowed for in law or by the council. Can I please remind the board to use the microphone when speaking by pressing the middle speaker icon, press once to turn it on and once to turn it off. We ask that you remain seated throughout the meeting unless you are called to the table to address the board. I don't know if we need everyone to introduce themselves. I don't think so. Does everyone know everybody? Just about, yes. Sorry. Oh, okay, there's a few new people, so maybe if we do go around, starting with Claire then. Thank you. Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Claire Green, Executive Director of Assurance and Public Protection. Hi, everybody. Maggie Hicton-Brown, Head of Community Safety, CCTV and Intelligence at Barnet Council. Thanks. A.D. for Safeguarding Children, Barnet Family Services. Karen Lingwoods, Domestic Abuse Consultant Working alongside Red Llama and Karen. Good morning. I'm Jenna Jamba. I'm Director of Public Health at Barnet Council. Hi there. Louisa Songa, Senior Public Health Strategist, Barnet Council. Council Alison Moore, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, but in this case, here, because I'm the Chair of the Combating Dogs Partnership Board. Good morning. Colby Daroni, Hate Crime, Reporting Coordinator, Barnet Mencap. Good morning. Gregory Finkiel, Head of Housing for Barnet, helps. Good morning, Inspector Kemal Fogh. I'm Neighbour Police Inspector for Barnet. Good morning, Police Johnson, Barrow Commander for Barnet for London Fire Brigade. Good morning. Good morning, all. I'm Perrin Jasper, Prevent Coordinator and the Hate Crime Lead for the London Borough of Barnet. Good morning, all. I'm Nick Liccardo. I'm the CCTV and Intelligence Manager for Barnet Council. Good morning, Matlin, Community Safety Manager for Barnet Council. And good morning. I'm Ben Norfolk, the Data Analyst for the Community Safety Team. Thank you. I'm Scarlett Ryan, the Governance Officer. Thank you all very much. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Good point. Would everyone online like to introduce themselves? Sorry. And thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. And if anyone can hear the national anthem, we've got the citizenship ceremonies again, so we might hear that a few times. Do we have any apologies for absence? I think I know that Leslie, the new chair of the Adult Safeguarding Board, can't make it. But we're meeting in April for a catch-up before the next meeting. Have you got any? No. Fine. Was everyone happy with the minutes of the previous meeting? Yep. Great. Thank you. Does anyone have any, I can never say this word properly, pecuniary interests or other interests to declare? No, nor me. We don't have any public questions and comments. Are there any matters arising? No. Great. So if we go on to, Maggie's going to take us through the performance update for quarter three on community safety, which will also be joined by the police as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Conway. We're actually going to start with the police going through the first few slides of the dashboard. Thank you. Thank you. Very quiet, Lorraine. I don't know if you can... That's a bit better. Can I just come in? Sorry, Lorraine. Maggie, I think, just wants to say something on one of those slides. Thank you. Sorry, Ben. Can you go back to... Thank you. Can you go back to the previous slide, please, Ben? Thank you. So I just wanted to confirm. So the period that we're talking about there, with the 455 cases of violence of injury, that's the three months the year before. So it's October 24 to December 24 in this period that we're discussing, but 12 months prior, so the October to December in 2023, it was 557. So there's a decrease of 18.3%, because a lot of the activity can sometimes be seasonal. So that's why we do the quarter comparison year on year. Just wanted to make that clear. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Can I... Sorry. Just on that. I mean, I do think, and it's something maybe for a different conversation, I think sometimes this can be slightly confusing in how it's presented, because it looks very dramatic that we've suddenly got a red arrow. And actually, we've gone up one level, and there's a downward trend on this type of crime. So I think it's probably a conversation all together for another time as well. Thank you. Sorry. I think we'll do that after this next bit, if that's OK. Yeah, it's item eight. But thank you very much, Lorraine, for joining us and taking us through that. Thanks. Maggie? Thanks, Lorraine. Thank you, Councillor. And now Matt will talk about the antisocial behaviour and community safety slides. Thank you, Chair. We have already talked about the definitions of antisocial behaviour and the use of tools and powers. The slide in front of you clearly shows a lower volume of use of interventions and tools and powers than the previous quarters, Councillor. The reason for that is there is a momentary delay in getting Metropolitan Police data from their central unit following their changes. At the next meeting, it will be the end of year summary, so we should have that rectified. The data you see in the top left for quarter three reflects the fact that the Council's data is still being put in there, and we have mainly, again, been using the Community Protection Notice written warning. And the PSPO numbers are simply the number of breaches that have been identified and dealt with by way of fixed penalty notice. On the top right, you can see the fixed penalty notices data that have issued for the same period. They total are 174, and at this current time, you can see the percentage that have paid, unpaid, and 95 have been paid. Councillor, what I will say to you is, at the point where we're referring to our legal services and legal services are getting involved, we're seeing quite a few people choose to pay the FPN late. So whilst you might say, why is there a high volume, when you look at the quarterly data, as we're referring it to legal, that percentile of unpaid is going down. And the case referrals to HB public law for prosecution are approximately four to eight a week at the minute. The final information on this slide is about the ASB community trigger that is now referred to as the ASB case review. We have changed the name in our documentation, but we're leaving both titles in, Councillor, because the public might not recognise the difference in the two. I think at some point, probably in the next year, we'll stop using the word community trigger. There have been no triggers in that relevant period for the three months, and that's the ASB slide. Next slide, please. The community safety numeric, the data is pretty much self-explanatory, but we still remain having an average of 15 cases at each community safety numeric, excuse me, that are ongoing. You're seeing numbers start to decline. However, we are anticipating in the new year an increase because of the activity that we've been doing with our local housing providers and some of the premises closure orders that have happened in that same quarter. The majority of referrals to the community safety numeric continue to be from the police or our colleagues in probation, but there are other referrals from other agencies such as St. Mungo's and victim support that will also be made in that same relevant period. Those are my two slides, Councillor. Thank you. I think we're on to CCTV, which would be Nick. Is that right? Thank you. Thank you, Chair. So, first slide is an overview. So, in the three months between October and December, inclusive, there was a total of 1,412 incidences recorded by CCTV and Barnet. On the right, the chart on the left displays the times incidences recorded with the quietest period being between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. and the busiest times being between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. To the right, the chart displays the percentage of proactive and reactive incidences recorded with 83% being identified proactively by the control room. Over the same period, October to December, there was a total of 56 CCTV requests received from insurance companies relating to road traffic incidences. Next slide. The following slide represents the number of proactive and reactive recorded incidences for the highest 12 wards, with the top three being Burnt Oak, Mill Hill and Cricklewood. The table below represents the CCTV incident categories for each of the 12 wards, with begging being the highest reported across the majority of the 12 wards, followed by rough sleeping and fly-tipping. So this slide represents the number of proactive and reactive CCTV recorded incidents for the lowest 12 wards, with Brunswick Park, Finchley Church End, Free and Barnet having the lowest reported incidences and no recorded incidences for Torridge and Woodside, Underhill and Garden Suburbs. The table below represents the CCTV incident categories for each of the 12 wards, with road traffic collisions being the highest reported across the majority of the 12 wards, followed by begging, violence against person and theft. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I just want to note on begging that, and I don't know, Maggie, if you want to say something, that obviously, as an administration, we do recognise the community safety element of this, but also the need for clear support. I know our CCTV does help with welfare checks and calls and things like that, but I think we'll be doing a little bit more work on this. Do you want to say a few words? Thank you. Thank you, Councillor. Yes, so within the community safety team, we're arranging a problem-solving group to concentrate on begging across the whole of Barnet. So we'll be reaching out to partners and colleagues across the council to join us to hopefully help tackle that and provide them with the support that they need going forward. Thank you. Thank you. And I think we're now on to Perrin with the prevent data. Thank you. If we look at this first slide here, what we can see is a very large drop in preventive referrals from the previous year. Obviously, 2023-24 included the October 23 events in the Middle East, and we saw a surge in referrals and inquiries around anti-Semitism there, which is purely the reason for the drop. We attended a CTLP or counter-trail and local profile briefing yesterday, which looks at the risk across the North London area, and referrals are gradually on the rise over the last three years. One thing I want to draw your attention to is the age of the people who are referred. You see, the largest cohort there is under 18. The parameters have been changed now. The largest cohort last year referred to prevent 40 percent, by far the largest cohort, worked for 11 to 15-year-olds. So that's certainly a concern. Why a lot of our resources are directed towards schools. If we look at the next slide, we can see largely there that our figures, our referral figures, inquiring figures, are very much aligned to that of the national figures as well. So, age years, the ideology of referral, et cetera, et cetera. Going forward, these are changing. I know I've been promising this for a long time now, but going forward, 2025-26, we'll be able to break down the ages and also break down those ideologies in a lot more detail to support, I suppose, the way we can focus the resources that we do have within the local authority. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'd also like to note on record that following the dreadful incidents and reporting on the Southport case, that we did convene a meeting with the police lead on Prevent Locally, and that I felt as reassured as one can about the processes here in Barnett and him noting how well that's generally handled. So I just thought we should note that. Thank you. So I think that's all on this item. Just before we go into the police update, I just wanted to note that these are, you know, every incident of crime is awful and has a huge impact on victims. But these are across the board, clearly, very progressive results from proactive policing that I can see locally. I also wanted to note, without stealing their thunder for the ward panel on Monday night, that following Operation Woodson in Burnt Oak, the ASB there is down 65% to 70%, which is quite extraordinary. So I just wanted to note and thank the police and the whole partnership, because I know public health is part of that, too, for the very progressive and proactive approach we've had over the past few months in Barnett. Thank you. Can we go to the next slide, please? Can we go to the next slide, please? I think it's there. I don't think I can see there. So this slide essentially just shows the makeup of our Barnett neighborhood police and teams. We've got 24 wards across three clusters, north, east, and west. I myself cover the east. And we've got bases, Mainet Barnett, Collingdale, Edgware, Catskill, Golders, Green, Finchley, and Finchley Patrol Base. Of course, we're headed up by Superintendent Loramus, Busby, McVeigh. Chief Inspector Paul Connelly is not here today. And three inspectors. And it just shows the details. If you just scroll down a little bit, please. Yeah, so that just shows the makeup of the wards and our ward priorities, which are, as you can see, they're robbery by this with injury. Violence against women and girls, residential burglary, ASB, and vehicle crime. So I will touch on robberies. If you can go to the next slide, please. Let's talk about what we're doing for robbery. It's further down, I believe. Yeah, that's the one. Okay. So for robbery, our main hotspots are Crickwood, Broadway, and Burnt Oak. Thankfully for this, for the reporting period for last year, I know it's not, you can't really see it there very clearly, but it was a slight increase in November, but the trend is now downwards. That includes January as well for this year. For what we're focusing on in terms of operation, we've got Operation Kangwood, but in terms of the robbery, mobile phones are consistently the properties that are being sought after by suspects or robbery suspects, and it comprises a significant proportion in terms of percentage of recorded incidents. It's not particularly isolated to Barnet, I would say, so this is a problem across London, but Operation Kangwood is a Barnet-focused initiative to title robbery amongst school and age children, and it's a joint initiative with Barnet Council, who've thankfully sponsored Select Mark DNA property marking. It isn't just solely focused on property marking. We also have tactical patrols at relevant times, and this is during half-term and end-of-school patrols, because we've noticed from the data set that this is when kids are most vulnerable, and from our patrols, we've noticed that there's been no recorded incidents of robbery at those relevant times, so that's welcome again. We also focus on strategic gains in terms of targeted offenders, and we've employed, as an example recently, an Achilles heel tactic, where we've apprehended successfully a non-robbery nominal who was on bail for robbery offences, but we also knew that he was also a prolific shoplifter. So the West Hendon Safe and Neighborhood Team identified him as being responsible for 10 shoplifting offences in the Brancroft Shopping Centre area. They recognised the risk posed by this suspect and his propensity to commit acquistative crime, so they targeted him specifically for the shoplifting offences. He was arrested, charged, and remanded for 10 shoplifting offences, which he pled guilty to, and he received a 10-weekly soldier sentence. So this was over the last couple of months of the reporting period, and we've also targeted other offenders as well. And as you can see, there's a noticeable drop in terms of recorded offences and a downward trend also going into the start of this year. So it's welcome news, and obviously you've provided a respite from potential further victims of both robbery and shoplifting offences as well. For vehicle crime, this is one of my portfolios, and also, go to the next slide, please, that's one. Yeah, so it's showing the downward trajectory over the reporting period. Vehicle crime offences, we have Operation Wood Branch within Barnet, which is a strategic aim to tackle vehicle crime offences, specifically focusing on theft off and theft from motor vehicle, which comprise largely 88% of recorded crimes in terms of vehicle crime offences. Other crime types for information is vehicle interference and aggravated vehicle taking, which are quite low. We also work collaboratively with external partners and across the NPS centrally on strategic initiatives to prevent, investigate, and carry out enforcement activities. The crime prevention piece includes multiple days of awareness by marking properties in terms of tools, high-value tools of builders. We've done about, I think, five events, which has been positively received, and the feedback has been, as I said, very good and welcome. So these kits cost about £60, which we are giving out for free, obviously, and by that engagement, increase the awareness as well. And as you can see from recorded offences, I know it's not very clear there, there's a downward trajectory and trend for vehicle crime offences. So if we go to the next slide, please, theft from person. So theft from person, let's go down there. So it can be divided into two categories, which is snatch and pickpocket. Snatch offences will have no violence involved. It could be someone on the phone walking about and someone could do a clean snatch. Where there's any force used, that would be classified as a robbery. And obviously, pickpocket is where, it's a snuffer fence where someone could lose their property without necessarily knowing where it is. Now, if we go further down, please, for the overview. So for queued, quarter three, there were 40 more fences in quarter three compared to 2023. So that was a rise of 17.5% approximately for that quarter. And for the peak boards, if you see that, we have Charles Hill, East Finchley, West End, and Edgeware, Woodhouse, and Cricketwood. So for West End and Edgeware, they both feature heavily due to the shopping centres on their wards, which is respectively Broadwalk and Brain Cross. And Charles Hill, East Finchley, Woodhouse are three peak wards as well for fences because we've got lots of bus routes along these, in these wards. So these are fences along these bus routes, predominantly feature where a suspect may be on an e-bike and they do a clean snatch and all pickpocketing when someone's on the bus, as an example. But when they reach the end of their journey, as in these relevant wards, they then report it. But then that gets recorded at these wards. So there isn't anything to say it's actually happened in these wards, if that makes sense. For the good news, we've done lots of engagement around these areas. We've distributed over 1,000 leaflets using our cadets. Again, it's very well received by the community in and around Gilders Green and East Finchley. We've worked with London Borough Barnet, CCTV vans. We're deployed to East Finchley areas, which saw a near 100% reduction over a two-week period whilst we were there. For Brain Cross, we've done plainclothes operations. Again, focusing on offenders, again, and people who pickpockets. We had one, especially during Black Friday, where the S&Ds conducted plainclothes patrols. And we had an arrest where we identified four, well, we had four arrests, but we also identified a nominal who had an offensive weapon. And again, he pleaded guilty and he had, I believe, a nine-month sentence as well. For the plans going into this year, for this quarter, it started good, where we had a two-week plainclothes operation again. Again, we had this mail stopped in possession of a knife. And for upringtone, we've been working closely with Barnet Council as well, looking at working with training standards to identify where we have activations for ringtones. And I know the new legislation has come in where we may have more powers to sort of go into properties. With the ringtones, if we see an activation, if it's close to a mobile phone shop, we will look to go with training standards to do some sort of enforcement activities to ensure that they are compliant with selling properties which aren't stoning. And we also get an officer who's been ring-fenced to review all theft, personal offences, where there may be possible CCTV for that second reinvestigation. So that's all I'm going to cover, really, for those three offences. That's great. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions or comments at all on that? I've got something just to add quickly, which is to thank Inspector Goodley for his briefing. I was fortunate to attend the Home Office Mobile Phone Summit a few weeks ago on behalf of the Local Government Association, and also to highlight the work that Barnet had been doing, including the arrests at Brent Cross. So it was good to have that opportunity and to talk about the project we're all doing together. Thank you very much for the update. We've now got the Family Services update. And just before we start, I'd like to thank the Probation Service for hosting Karen Radlama and I. Yeah, on Monday, I think it was, where we looked at the specialist drop-in that happens on Mondays for women prisoners and that we'll be taking forward some of that work. Thank you. I think we're now over to Karen. Thanks. Thank you, Chancellor. Okay, thank you. So in terms of domestic abuse and fog, if you look at the first slide, in terms of our priorities for the strategy 22 to 25, you'll see just the last year and this last quarter we're now at 81% achieved. Just on that 26% not achieved, just to clarify, five of those will be achieved by the end of this quarter. Eight are carried over to, they'll be carried over to the next plan because they're measuring more long-term impact and one hasn't progressed, but that's progressing under another plan. So even though that's at 26%, we should, by the end of the year, we should be achieving all of the actions that we set out at the beginning of the strategy, which is good. Okay, what I'm doing, I'm just going to pull out some key strengths and key initiatives. So for objective one, we've got our early intervention and prevention of domestic abuse. So what we're focusing on is Operation Encompass. We have made progress and we're getting there, but we do need to go a little bit further with that. So we've got more schools signed up and we have got that communication and information going to the schools from the police, but there is still more work to do. So we're taking that to the Barnet Children Safeguarding Board to see how we can unblock some of the problems, maybe, or the issues we're having at the moment, just so we can make sure that that runs smoothly. Our DA4 partnership training is continuing. We're going out to lots of partner agencies. We're just going out to the judges, actually, judges and magistrates as well. So we've managed to get that in place. So that's lots of training and lots of people interested in VORG and our partners across the borough. So we're quite happy to be going anywhere people need us to go. What we're pushing, what we have been pushing this quarter, is that intervention for survivors. So picking up the pieces, a rise, we're really trying to get those referrals up and get women engaged in the service, which are being funded by the Prevention Fund. And just to point out that we still remain full-flowist in London for DA offences per 1,000 population and police positive outcomes stand at 8.9%, so we remain 16th across all London boroughs. So if we look at support all victims, survivors to report, we've had 302 victims have been referred to MARIC, 274 victims have been assessed, SOLIS and a further 317 victims were given advice and support. So I think we've got a really strong offer for victims and that's obviously a survivor, sorry, and that's obviously continuing. Our IRIS programme continues, so 30 GP surgeries out of 50 and they're fully trained. 13 GPs are partially trained and we've got seven that didn't engage, but we're looking to engage those GPs and just pushing that a bit more. And then we continue to have CODA, which is a recovery group for women and children. And we've had 15 women attend that in the last quarter. So if we look at the pursue perpetrators and engage behaviour, so between the last quarter we've had 250, oh sorry, from, yes, the last quarter, sorry, 251 perpetrators have been discussed at MARAC, 86 perpetrators have been referred to RISE, 30 referred to CIFAR, DA Perpetrate Programme, and some good news that we've had MOPAC have confirmed that they're going to fund our CIFAR programme across 10 boroughs now for another year, which is good, very good news. And we're currently doing an evaluation of that, so it'll be interesting, is that Hertfordshire or Kent is doing? Kent University. Yes, Kent University is currently doing an evaluation of that CIFAR programme because we do think it's got some really, really good results. So we'll be able to assess and see how successful that's been, and do we need more of that or less of that, and what's working, what isn't, in terms of perpetrators' behaviour change. And we've just launched across the London Borough of Barnet our domestic abuse policy and guidance, and this is the first time we've had a domestic abuse policy and guidance, which has gone down really well. It's been really welcomed by staff across the council. We've got lots of questions about this and lots of managers engaging in this in terms of their responsibilities in this. So, yes, lots of good news about that. And just so you can see all the partnership stuff that last time I just said, especially because we had the 16th Ace of Act activism there, I'm not going to read it all out, but there was so much going on, and there continues to be so much good work, and I think Councillor Cormier already mentioned, you know, joint visits with a hostel, sorry, refuges, joint visits with probation, and you've also been to the call centre, and got some lots of contacts there, and we're going to be working with the call centre in terms of domestic abuse recognising drogue and things like that, which I mean the call centre, I mean the police call centre in Hendon. So lots of partnership working. In terms of working together for Safe for the Streets, we have the Safe Havens pilot that's just coming to an end, or well, coming to a year, it will be a year. So we've just put together an options appraisal, so we're just going to have a think together about what worked with that, what did we see, what were the strengths, and how we're going to move that forward, or what that might look like going forward into next year. And the safety initiative, Ask for Angela, the police have been out to lots and lots of venues, and really positive outcome of that actually, because businesses, venues were very responsive, and there was like, I think it was 90%, we did have the figures, sorry I didn't put it on there, it was like 90% of businesses knew what Ask Angela was, was really confident on it, and delivering, so I think it was other 90 or 92, I can't remember, yeah. Sorry, I think at that point, if it's okay just to interrupt, to thank the Rose and Transport Police, because I might be joining them again this afternoon, so they're very active on that, and they're also doing their awareness stands across the borough this week, and on the call centre visit, just to explain if that's okay, really quickly, that was something, I went on a ride along a few months ago, and I'm aware that there's a lot of DA cases, or there's always one every shift, and that was exactly proven right, and so it was very much, we then went back, that was thanks to previous Chief Inspector Mark Cash, took me along to meet the call centre, I then went back with some of the team, and we're going to go back with some of the DA support groups, from the community, and have a proper conversation, about how we join up on support, and outreach, and how we work together closer, I'm aware the government is doing, the inverting call centre pilot in other areas, but we thought we'd get on, and usefully do something here in the meantime, and the call centre response has been fantastic, we may also be looking at, how we get survivors voices heard, and do a quiet session on that as well, so I just really wanted to note that, and thank everybody for their work on that. Oh, okay, I've just got Red Llama saying, she told yesterday, we've got another 270K for CIFAR, so we can expand that across another two bars as well, which is good news, we found that out yesterday. Red Llama looked like she wanted to say something, but sorry, I didn't quite hear that, if you can say it into the mic, thank you. Go on Red Llama. Yesterday, MOPAC had a meeting with me, and confirmed that they want to extend CIFAR to another two to three boroughs, because they will give us another extra funding of 270K, besides what they've given us already. Amazing, if I could just say thank you, and congratulations to the whole team, particularly Red Llama, well done, thank you. Very good, yeah, absolutely, well done, that's good news. Okay, so that's domestic abuse and VORG, any questions? Sorry, yeah, you know, you said about the MRAC process, and 251 perpetrators were discussed at MRAC, 86 been referred to RISE, and 30 referred to the CIFAR programme, what happens to the others, is there anything else that you have in place? Some may already be known to probation, so maybe working for probation, but some also, we have another perpetrator programme, that's not CIFAR, so CIFAR is more culturally, a culturally integrated programme, so we have another, we have other perpetrator programmes in the borough, but you're absolutely right, we could include that as well, so we know exactly what the percentage of take-up is, but yeah, we have other programmes that they could be referred to, so we could have that, yeah. Thank you very much, I'd also welcome the layout of the presentation, which I know everyone's worked really hard on, across the team, well I couldn't say that, but yeah, it's great. And easier to fly through. Thank you, and I don't think Chris Kelly's online, so are you going to take us through the youth violence? I'll be much quicker than Chris usually is. No, no, no, again, I'm not making any comments. Yeah, thank you Karen. Yeah, we've got youth justice next anyway, so again, this is just a real brief update, for quarter three, so Barnet custody rates for young people, are at 0.05 per 1,000, and we're slightly lower than London, and there has been a slight increase, but we still are being slightly lower, than the average numbers across London, we are fully committed, to reducing the use of custody, for young people, so we've got lots of other alternative, supervision and surveillance, and options available for young people, that we're really trying to, make sure we go down that road. Just to note, in terms of first time entrance, which I buy it, has risen, risen slightly, but we still again, remain below the London national average, and that rise is, we've had in the last couple of quarters, a couple of children, that we couldn't offer alternatives, the crime was such, that actually we couldn't offer alternatives, so the first time entrance, with an order of referral order of custody, it's just gone up very slightly, it actually is a very small number of children, but it was one incident, that then pushes that up a bit, so we're still lower, the binary refriending rate, in Barnet does remain below national average, and we are, Brent is 1% higher, just to compare to Brent and Harrow, because they are obviously youth, so Brent and Harrow, we're 1% higher, and Harrow 5% lower than Barnet, but that could be for a number of reasons, okay, and just to highlight some of the projects again, we've had very good news for the Youth Justice Service, MOPAC have agreed, sorry, the YJB have agreed to fund, our turnaround project, and our engage project, which is really, really good news, because they have got some really, really good results, in terms of engaging with young people, right at the front door, when they have that arrest, or they're in custody, so that's been a really, really successful project, so that's good news, that will continue, but I say it did go to the wire, I think we found out a couple of weeks ago, so yeah, it's, I mean that is one of the challenges really, with these funding streams, you literally, you know, make plans that we not get the money, and you get it very last minute, so it's really difficult, to sustain that stability, with these services, so that's just a challenge, that we're facing, but we still do, lots of good projects, and the Youth Justice Team, do work really hard, to engage young people, and just come to the last slide there, in terms of restorative justice, we're doing a lot of restorative justice work, at the moment, it is one of our strategic priorities, and I just did that slide there, to just highlight, how much work is actually happening, in terms of restorative justice, we do have a restorative justice coordinator, and a victim coordinator, who work very, very closely, to make sure that, that model of intervention, is definitely, reaching the Youth Justice Team, so I'm not going to go through, those numbers, but you can just see, the work there, okay, unless anybody wants me to, I don't know, does, any questions, thank you very much, I was going to say, does anyone have any, questions or comments, I guess I just, sorry I've always got, something to add, I went to a County Lines conference, that the police were doing, this week, and I just wanted to note, that I know we've looked at, autism and other issues, and learning disabilities, as victims and perpetrators, across the system, and that might be something, you want to pick up again, I know we've not caught up, on this yet, but there was something, in their whole, sort of presentation, that they did, that I think reflected, some of the work, we've already started doing, absolutely yeah, so when we have our catch up, we can catch up on that too, there's lots of SEM work, and lots of children's work, going across, these services as well, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, great thank you, yeah, I have failed to say, that on all of these reports, that I'm there for noting, so we have noted them all, and thank you to everyone, for their work, I think that takes us, on to item 10, which is the update, to the serious violence duty, and violence reduction plan, thank you, gives a table, of all the projects, all the initiative, that we are doing, which is daily meetings, with the police, monthly tactical meetings, regular problem solving groups, with outreach, I mean some of this overlaps, so much, so there's a bit of a repeat, in this but, you know, with all the restorative justice work, the victim hub work, adults risk panel, and the tackling violence, and exploitation panel, so there's lots of activities, happening in Barnet, I'll go on to the next slide, but I think Lorraine's presentation, had a lot of these, crime statistics as well, so all I'll do, is just point out, that I think you've already, done it councillor, there's definitely been a reduction, and you know, we're seeing, a rate of violence, against the person, is down 9.8%, this quarter, we've also seen, a decrease in, knife crime with injuries, that's down 29.6%, the only thing to note, there's a slight increase, from last year, on drug trafficking offences, totalling 276, which accounts for 69%, of all drug offences, so we usually see, a 50-50, there's a slight increase there, but that's something, we can just have a look at, but that's the only thing, to note there, I would say, adults at risk panel, that's continued, so just to note, this quarter, there was 36 cases heard, 38% of the cohort, were referred from leaving care, which is obviously, again, just to note, so we're going to have a look at that, and do some work around that, and overall, the cohort, 8% of cases, were co-managed by services, and community safety team, the new LCPF funding, we're looking at a project, that's going to pick up, some of this, because we've seen 78% of the cohort, between 18 to 25, so we're going to, well, community safety, are developing a new project, we'll look at this cohort of people, that would hopefully, start tackling some of that, and have a look at some of that, which is really, really positive, if we get the funding, which one should we ask? Okay, and again, the serious incidents response meetings, just in case anyone doesn't know, it's CERMs, we call them, so if there's been a serious incident, with a child, up until 25, and we'll have a serious incident, response meeting, which just looks at, how it responds, what's the safety, what do we need to do, who do we need to engage, is everyone doing what they need to be doing, and how do we protect, that family, or that child, or a young adult, up until 25, and again, that's decreased this last quarter, we've had three, sorry, we've had four incidences, two stabbings, and two shootings, that's all had a CERM, and we've managed to engage, some safety, around those incidences, and, the outreach engagement, there's, again, this is a highlight, so I've put this in here, there's just so much work going on, so much outreach work going on, reaching so many young people, and young adults, and, we're engaged, you know, this quarter engaged, in 495 individuals, and there's, the areas that we're covering, Brent Cross, McDonald's, Transport Hub, Schools, Collingdale, Hendon, Burk Oak, Finchley, and Dollis Valley, so, that's just in there, just to highlight, how much outreach work, is actually going on, and, you know, it has then led to, referrals to MASH, so if we've had, safeguarding concerns, about young people, we've made referrals to MASH, there's also been, quite a lot of, community reassurance, you know, and if there's an incident, we will have some outreach workers, going out the following day, or that evening, just to, you know, talk to local residents, and just provide that, reassurance, so, lots of good work going on there, in terms of outreach, in the community, victim care hub, again, this will continue, because we've just done a bid, for the LCPF funding, so hopefully that will all go through, I don't see why it wouldn't, that famous last word, but we can be able to continue, with the victim hub, and again, that just shows you, how many victims, we are reaching, and supporting, in the local community, so that's been a really good incentive, that we do want to continue, and then, if anyone is interested, just the types of crime, that we're seeing, in the hub, and, you know, knife crime, and assault, is obviously, and exploitation, for 18 plus, is the highest, that, the, that we're working with, in terms of the victims, of those crimes, I mean, people can read through that, if they want some more information, about their victim hub, and just again, just to highlight, a new project, it's called, Secure My Stuff, so we've been focusing, we've got, outreach to workers, focusing on planning, and linking with partners, and developing, lots of promotional materials, we've got two staff, who are driving the project, and we've got pop-ups, across the borough, and we've already engaged with 90, it's just started, we've always, already engaged with 90 individuals, marked 19 phones, so that's what they, you know, helping young people, mark their phones, so if they miss a theft, or robbery, and we're doing work, work arounds, and coordinating, with the team, around the schools project, so the two projects, are linked up, and just gives that, support into schools there, but yeah, that's a new project, and that is it, I think, yep. Thank you very much, on that project, it was actually, really encouraging, we had a cabinet, sort of question time, with young people, a few weeks ago, and the whole issue, of sort of theft, and security, after school came up, so it was great, to be able to talk about, the project that we're doing, and I think to, sort of refer that school, for a session, absolutely, and we've got funding, for that for the next year, so we should see that, for a while, yep, so that's great, does anyone have any, questions or comments, or anything, I mean it's a huge amount, of work that's going on, and I think it's great, I also really welcome, the collaborative approach, to the funding bid, to the London Crime Prevention Fund, and the focus, on the slightly older cohort, that I know, has come up a lot, in conversations, in the past year, it's definitely a gap, so thank you all very much, that's great, thank you, so that's noted, with thanks, and that takes us, onto item 11, and I think we've got Candice online, to cover that, I just wanted to highlight, and again say thank you, to the comms team, who are now, very regularly, in our meetings, I think that's really important, because we always talk about, how safe people feel, and communications, about all of this fantastic work, that's going on, and where to go for support, is an absolutely vital, part of that, so Candice, I think it's over to you, for a verbal update, thank you. That's great, thanks. Yes, sorry, I thought, there was a thumbs up, thank you. Thank you Candice, I think if I can just add, a few things, first of all, you've been incredibly modest, so I wanted to congratulate, you and the team, on presenting, the VAUG campaign, with Barry M, to the Home Office recently, which was really, really fantastic, that you were to do that, and to say thank you, to Chris and to John, who have worked, on all of this with you, also wanted to thank, Middlesex University, who are still, very effective, ongoing partners, I've been to a couple, of sessions, with some of the, council officers, on the campaign, they're working on, to sort of build, communications, and a campaign, with the street scene team, evolving from the visit, that we did, during the 16 days, so that remains, a really important partnership, on fly tipping, and we can pick it up, separately, I wanted to suggest, that we actually, do a session, with some of the most, active residents, who are constantly, in touch with me, and other councillors, with their ideas, their views, their suggestions, and that's something, I'll be picking up, with councillor Schneiderman, and some of the directors, at a meeting next week, when we're updating, and lastly, I think we've missed, but we'll bring it, to the June meeting, any sort of update, on community cohesion, I know the comms team, and others, on the community, participation team, tomorrow, Rui, et cetera, we've been doing, ongoing work, based on funding, that came from, the government, to sort of, build on projects, or do something new, but we're building, on the community cohesion, work that we're doing, and we are co-producing, that with residents, we've had three meetings, already, that started during, hate crime week, and we'll be launching, the sort of full campaign, in the summer, in June, gosh, okay, we're all keeping safe, and that will be based, on a digital quilt idea, very much mirroring, the local community's response, to the far right, targeting Finchley, last summer, where they're doing, an actual quilt, and so it will be, an opportunity, to really highlight, the positive activities, and the way in which Barnet, does community cohesion, again, I've had the opportunity, to talk about that, slightly nationally as well, and so I wanted, to thank everybody, for their work on that, very very busy, and I'm delighted, the way that, comms is now integrated, with everything, that we're all doing, on community safety, which is great, I don't know if anybody's, got any comments, or questions, or anything, no, if not, thank you very much, Candice and the team, for all your work, on everything, thank you, it's great working with you, so we've noted that, and that takes us, on to the victim support updates, and I think we've got, Caroline online, thank you, thank you. Great, thank you very much, we look forward to hearing that, at probably the next meeting, or one very soon, thank you Caroline, for joining us, that takes us on to, I think Peter Johnson, is going to give us, the London Fire Brigade, annual update, thank you. Yes, good morning, the Borough's stations, responded to the, 10 pump fire, earlier this week, which is, part of an ongoing, police investigation, we've also worked closely, during the recent issues, concerning fire safety, and sprinkler failures, within Gracie House, upcoming, we have a multi-agency exercise, involving HATZOLA, LAS, and the MPS firearms team, planned for May, where we'll be exercising, for a modern terrorist response, 2024, was a very busy year, for London Fire Brigade, especially within Barnet, the four stations, within Barnet, Mill Hill, Hendon, Finchley, and Barnet, attended 5,500 incidents, over the year, ranging from small bin fires, to large fires, that had both huge social, and economic impact, on the local community, within the last 12 months, our response, to automatic fire alarms, has changed, and from October 24, we changed the way, we respond to automatic fire alarms, bringing significant benefits, to the way that we're able, to serve and protect, people of London, and local, within Barnet, this has freed up time, for training and prevention work, and across the capital, 99% of automatic fire alarms, are false alarms, they currently make up, approximately 40% of all calls, to the fire brigade, we will continue to respond, to all automatic fire alarms, in all residential buildings, and in schools, nursery, hospitals, care homes, heritage sites, and other exempt premises, and also, we will be responding, during the night, to all buildings, the last year, we've been an increase, in the LFB charge safe, an e-bike campaign, and following the King's speech, at the opening of parliament, the government announced, that they will be introducing, the product safety bill, which stated, there is an urgent need, to legislate, and to respond, to emergent threats, to consumer safety, for example, to address the issues, such as e-bikes, where there has been, a 78% increase, in e-bike fires, in 2023, compared to 22, in London, the charge safe campaign, was launched, in May 2023, and we've also been, engaging with the government, as we wait, for the outcome, of the product safety review, consultation, which ended last year, and we also have, responded to a consultation, this year, on proposed changes, to legislation, for electrically, electrically assisted, pedal cycles, e-bikes, within the last year, we also held, an exercise, at RAF museum, firefighters tested, the brigade's, emergency response, in September, as part of a training exercise, at Hendon's, former aerodrome, as well as testing, the response, to a fire, on the third floor, mezzanine level, in a hangar, it was also an opportunity, for firefighters, and the museum salvage team, to train, for how they would, safely remove, and preserve the site's, historic artifacts, in the event, of an emergency, the plans allowed, crews to put, recovery strategies, in place, in advance of an incident, and help firefighters, establish which equipment, is needed to safely recover, or protect items, as quickly as possible, to minimize, any damage, we also held, two open days, attended by thousands, of people across, a weekend in September, at Mill Hill, and Finchley, fire stations, that's the year-end, Barnet, for line of fire brigade. Thank you very much, I also wanted to thank you, particularly, and your team, and the council team, and I know, I've got the gold command, sitting next to me, for the response, to the fire last week, last week, not this week, this week, and yeah, I think residents, have noted, that it was incredible, seeing the scenes, that nobody was seriously hurt, which is, real testament, to your team, thank you, and thanks to the council, for all the work, you've been doing, I don't know, if anyone's got any, questions, comments, no, okay, thank you, oh, was that, no, don't scratch your nose, or I'll ask for a question, yeah, sorry, I wasn't sure, if you had a question, okay, no, we'll move on, and actually, so thank you very much, and all our thanks, for all the work, and that takes us on, to the Barnet Homes update, thank you. Thank you Councillor Conway, it is my pleasure, to introduce, ND, our new, well, not new anymore, anti-social behaviour manager, who will present in this, for Barnet Homes. So, currently, the ASB team, we've been Barnet Homes, have three ASB officers, and one ASB manager, we currently have, well, it's over 50 now, open ASB cases, so, to year to date, we have been, dealing with a riot, with different types of ASB cases, so I've just put a breakdown, of the cases that we dealt with, including noise cases, drug related cases, assaults, and a variety, of different, types of ASB cases, we dealt with, during this period of time, in terms of, year to date, we have, had, 446, approaches, to our domestic, abuse one stop shop, we've completed, we've completed, 64 century screen, installations, we've been working closely, with the attacking, and exploitation panel, and the 0 to 19 localities, we have also, have some good news stories, in terms of the work, that we've done, so we continue, to work with our partners, on the Grand Park estate, so, following on, from the work done, in previous years, with the clear hold bill, we've continued, to see improvements, on the Grand Park estate, we've increased presence, from officers, not only from, Barnett Homes, but from the council, and from the police, following operation, Dakota, where there's 300, arrests, 34 of, individuals, were, identified, as being linked, to, Barnett Homes, addresses, so we're currently, conducting, operation with, the local authority, community safety team, to identify those individuals, and determine, what action would be taken, for their involvement, in, and social behaviour, and criminality, in the area, following the installation, CCTV, the police have been able, to use footage, to successfully, carry out warrants, which have led, to criminal charges, we've also done, a lot of work, on our Bellevue estate, over the last year, so we've had, the increase of, antisocial behaviour, on the Bellevue estate, this is dating back, to the beginning of, 2024, where, following unfortunately, the work that was done, in the Graham Park, a lot of the people, who were displaced, from there, found their way, onto the Bellevue estate, in Hendon, which increased, antisocial behaviour, and rough sleepers, within the blocks, and class A drug users, so a lot of, joint working was done, with the local policing team, and we were able, to identify, individuals, and properties, which were involved, in causing a nuisance, in and around the area, we were successfully, successfully able, to apply, for closure orders, which were put in place, on the Longford Court block, which was able, to reduce, significantly reduce, the antisocial behaviour, that was reported, on the block, and provide, respite to residents, who had been dealing, with a lot of issues, in particular, the beginning of last year, and into the summer, we've been able to, as part of the operation, we're in the process, of applying for, named injunctions, against a number of individuals, who've been linked, to the antisocial behaviour, in addition, to the closure order, that I've mentioned, and there's some, other closure orders, that were done, on some properties, so this was a, real successful operation, especially due, to the work, that was done, with an injunction, with the police, and there's some figures, in terms of the reductions, in calls, that the police received, this is dating back, last year, into the end of, this year, in the beginning of the year, so it just shows, a real improvement, over the course, of this period, we've had a couple, other success stories, in regards to, an eviction, following the long standing, issues in Muswell Hill, so two properties, in particular, where residents face, a lot of antisocial behaviour, there was sometimes, some cocoon, drug dealing, and various issues, that have gone on, dating back to, even the COVID pandemic, we were able to, successfully carry up, two evictions, in two different properties, which provided respite, to residents, who were dealing with, daily and social behaviour, in addition to that, we've had a, a renewal, of our noise, nuisance service, in terms of, how we operate, in regards to noise nuisance, so following, the Ombudsman report, published in 2022, we have, procured the noise, app, which allows our residents, to be able to, record and report, noise nuisance to us, it just kind of, gives us more tools, to our disposal, to be able to investigate, noise nuisance, because we know, noise nuisance is a big, issue for number of residents, across the borough, so we feel, implementation of the noise app, and a more robust approach, by the team, will allow us, to be able to, successfully deal, with noise nuisance, in a better way, in terms of going forwards, and what we've achieved, we've done a lot of partnership work in, we carry out our yearly urban games, in and around the Graham Park Estate, which allow local residents, and children, to be able to come, and socialise, and interact with different services, there's always a big turn out, from partners, at that event, which is obviously a good event, for the residents of the area, as I've mentioned before, we've done work, on the Bellevue Estate, with our partners, this year, we've had our, we've had the clear hold build, pop up event, in May of last year, which was on the Graham Park Estate, which allowed residents, to come and meet, discuss the work that's been done, prior, and discuss what will be done, going forward, to assist them further, in regards to, the clear hold build, we had a presence, at the ASB week, event in November 2024, which was, organised by, the community safety team, so that was on the Graham Park Estate, as well, and also in, HAA, so there was just a stall, where we were, I had a presence, so residents could come, and speak to us, ask any questions, and be able to interact with us, we are currently, planning some, dropping sessions, going forward, with the prevention, and well being team, to try and deal with, a lot of, there's a lot of housing queries, not only just ASB, but rental queries, repair queries, so we're looking to have a presence, going forward, at some pop up, hubs, to allow residents, to be able to come, and meet with us, and discuss any concerns, they have with us, so then, just finally, our priorities, for the year ahead, one of our main priorities, is to, we're currently going, through a DAHA, that's Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance Accreditation, which is a big focus, for us at the moment, to try and get, that completed, it entails, a overview, of our domestic abuse policy, how we deal, with domestic abuse, cases, and, completely, aligns our approach, to being basically, a national best standing, in terms of how we deal, with these things, so we currently have, a domestic abuse, project office, dealing with that, at the moment, who's, and so that involves, like I said, various different departments, training across the organization, multiple services, in terms of how we identify, and deal with domestic abuse, we're going to continue, to develop best approaches, to dealing with cases, we're increasing, our ways, in which residents, can report, and social behavior, to us, we've developed, an online form, and various different codes, in which residents, can use to report, and social behavior, to us, across the borough, so that's all, thank you. Thank you, I'd like to say, thank you to Barnett Holmes, and you Andy, for the work, that you're doing, in this new role, which I think, has really added, to the strength, of the partnership, across the borough, I also note, and can't help, but note, how different, today feels, to the meeting, that was the first time, I chaired this board, back in July 2022, I think Clearhold Build, together with the input, of all our different partners, has really changed, the way that things, are done for residents here, and I feel, that that will continue, and is really continuing, to have impact, so that is, it's very welcome, I think we increasingly, tackle things together, and recognise, shared responsibilities, I'm aware, from a Graham Park catch up, again, I think it was this week, it's been a very long week, that we're taking that forward, with the other housing associations, as well, of that collective approach, to how we keep, this borough safer, so it's really welcome, thank you all very much, I don't know, if anyone's got, any specific questions, for Barnett Holmes, nope, I'm sure everyone, can always follow up, as needed, and so thank you, we note that report, and that takes us, on to the public health team, on the combating drugs, partnership update, again, there is a strong, partnership approach, both between us, as colleagues, and as teams, and between the teams, out on the ground, which I think, is making a real difference, thank you, I think we're starting, with Councillor Moore, thanks. Thank you, I'll just say a few words, in introduction, if I may, I'd like to echo, your comments share, about thanking partners, on the combating drugs, partnership board, for their, continued engagement, both with, the main, CDPB meetings, which now, meet six monthly, but just, in fact, more importantly, in the working groups, which meet, in between those formal meetings, and that's where, the real nitty gritty, should go on, led by partners, I hope, across, the, both the council, and beyond, and, and that then, feeds into, the, the board meetings, where we should be seeing, the strategic oversight, and so that, model of working, is still bedding in, and that then, allows us, also, to report into, the safer communities, partnership board here, and the health, and well-being board, so we, we look to both, the health impacts, and the community safety, safety impacts, the report gives details, of the procurement, of Barnett substance, misuse service provider, CGL, and I'll leave Louisa, to cover the details of that, but I welcome, the continuity, that provides, and the opportunity, to continue, to increase the impact, of that, that work, I'd also welcome, the amalgamated grant, jointly funded by, DHSC, and MHCLG, which underpins, that work, and while noting, that it's a small, reduction, against last year's, grant, I think it's really, important to recognize, that the government, recognizes the ongoing, importance, of this work, and finally, I'd like to thank officers, for their work, in fairly short order, in fact, once the grant, was announced, in terms of putting together, the plan, for the use of the grant, and other funding, over the coming year, and to members, of the partnership, the CDPB, for convening, at relatively short notice, an additional meeting, to discuss, to challenge, and to formally agree, that plan, spend, and activity, for the coming year, in line with, the grant obligations, so it's a work, in progress, but I think, a lot's been achieved, and I'd like to hand over, Louisa, to go through the details, because she is, the main mover, and shaker in this. Thanks, Councillor Moore. I won't take too much, of your time, so I think, Councillor Moore, said both of it, anyway, and the report's, quite self-explanatory, I guess, the three things, that it covers, in terms of the, substance misuse service, procurement, at the time of writing, the report, we hadn't yet published, our intention, to award notice, I understand, this is now, published, and live, on the, Barnett website, and we have reviewed, all documents, and are happy, to proceed, with the current provider, a few small things, to iron out, but all being well, service will, continue, 1st of April, with the current provider, in the current structure, there'll be a period, of transformation, where, the model, isn't too different, to what we have, at the moment, but we have, Reju, to recognise, some of the new, challenges we have, in Barnett, and to respond, to some of the, emerging needs, that we have, in the community, so there will be, some restructuring, going on, and some changes, with how the service, is delivered, we've also taken, the opportunity, to move some of the things, that we had funded, through the grant funds, into the main core, of the service, and use the grant funds, for some other, bits and pieces, so that's really positive, the substance misuse grants, the grant applications, went in, last week, yep, 28th of February, and so we're just waiting, to hear back from, OHID, on whether or not, they're happy, with our plans, all looks fairly positive, we've had a few meetings, and OHID have indicated, they're happy, with the things, that we've recommended, to use it on, the small underspend, has been covered, through other parts, so we aren't actually, seeing any changes, in the provision, that will be offered, but there's a bit, of a reduction, on public health, on officer time, which, where officers, are being redirected, to other parts, of the system as well, so, very positive, and again, that's a year on year, funding, really hoping, that we, we hear, sooner rather, than later, on what the, OHID's plans are, on continuing that funding, as it does bring, lots of challenges, to how we deliver, our services, I think it's really, important to note, that it's a really, significant amount, of money, it's almost, a million pounds, of grant funding, on a contract, which is, two point, something million, so it is really, important to recognise, that if we lose, that grant funding, it's a really, significant impact, to our frontline service, delivery, most significantly, is that it funds, the entire, rough sleeping team, for the substance, misuse provider, rough sleeping, and homelessness, rough sleeping, and substance, misuse team, sorry, but for the moment, all very positive, and this year, has been confirmed, finally, as Councillor Moore said, we brought, the main, Combating Drugs Update, to, Safe Communities Partnership Board, in September, so that's, available, in the, in the, meeting documents, we also published, our annual report, in September, which is on the Barnet website, and we are now, looking at starting, to develop our plans, for this year, coming, and developing, a new strategy, and a new working plan, for the Combating Drugs, Partnership Board, so we hope to publish, that in the coming, coming months, thanks Chair. Thanks very much, to you and everybody, for all the work, on that, and the work, that we've all been doing, together as partners, is great, I'm assuming, I can't see any questions, or anything, so thank you, we've noted that, the forward work program, again is just for noting, obviously at the next meeting, there's quite a lot, of the main annual reporting, that happens, and I'm not sure, of the date, for the crime, and disorder committee, but we'll need to circulate, as that as well, for the annual overview, and scrutiny, of the work we're doing, and I don't know, if there's any other business, I don't have anything, oh sorry, another scratching, of the head, so it was like, it's like being, at an auction, or something, not I've ever been at one, but I imagine, so that leaves us, the date of the next meeting, is the 13th of June, thank you all, for all the work you're doing, you've done, and that you'll be doing, until then, and I look forward, to catching up with you all, then if not in between, and thank you.